Title: Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders     
Date: 1951     
Author: Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard     
Publisher: Oxford University Press     
Publication place: Oxford     

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
19579 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Square, with pierced pyramidical top. A lizard and 2 scorpions.
18190 (none) 1932,1008.179 (none) Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Square pyramidal design, a spread eagle.
17330 (none) 1931,1010.70 (none) Stamp seal. Conical. Glass paste? Gazelle crescent moon.
16408 31-43-2 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Circular, convex above of striped black and white marble, design almost entirely perished; worked mostly with the drill. [drawing 1:1]
18354 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Chalcedony. High flattened conical type a worshipper upon a disk set on a staff.
18442 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Button type: pierced horizontally grey steatite. In the convex top are 6 shallow holes drilled, partly to take inlay: on the flat base is a roughly engraved subject.
17343 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Baked clay. Crescent shaped. Design: Deeplay and crescent thus [reference to drawing] [drawing]
16610 (none) 1931,1010.63 (none) Stamp seal. White marble? 3 animals, one of them a gazelle? [drawing]
13722 31-17-24 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Translucent white quartzite(?) oval, flat below & rounded above: on the flat base, traces of an animal design mostly done with a drill-point, in dots joined up by rough engraving; the design really unrecognisable now. [drawing 1:1]
18830 (none) 1935,0112.55 (none) Stamp seal. Square. Dark mottled steatite. A spread eagle holding in one claw a club(?) and with the other clasping a small human figure.
18928 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Grey hematite. Square, with tubular handle. A seated figure to whom an attendant offers a spouted libation vase. Very curious cutting, especially in the faces.
18284 33-35-170 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Facetted conical: chalcedony. Persian type. Two standing figures worshipping before an altar: crescent above.
6020 (none) 1927,0527.201 (none) Stamp seal, flattened hemispherical -obverse convex- top with decorative workings - 3 parallel lines running across centre and 4 concentric circles in corners. White steatite. Two Sumerian - man & wife bring as an offering a goat (?) and a vase of milk. diam. 0022 width 0004 About BC 3500. photograph 554 E.
18249 (none) (none) (none) Stamp of dark steatite. Perhaps a jeweller's die. A god standing on the back of a lion. [drawing 1:1]
7916 (none) (none) B16906 Stamp flat seal. One side convex. Calcite. Greyish. Above a reclining beast, possibly a jackal? and below a second beast with big head.
16023 (none) (none) (none) Shell Cylinder seal. ...son of d.Sulpae. HC.30/I.9 UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain)
16809 (none) 1933,1013.52 (none) Shell cylinder seal (not pierced). ^dAdad-ba(?)-ni(?) ,dumu Nu-ur- ^dAdad...
17121B (none) (none) (none) Seals. Two steatite plaques, rectangular and oblong, flat on one side and gabled on the other, the gabled side pierced perhaps for a metal ring handle. A) [drawing 1:1] thus, with rough design of a scorpion. B) smaller but apparently with the same design (much worn)
18697 (none) (none) (none) Seal. White limestone. A cylindrical cone cut segmentally on the broad part of the convex face a a squatting gazelle. [drawing 1:1]
6872 (none) (none) B16315 Seal. Stone. Convex on one side, flat on the other. Round incisions on the flat side. Pierced. Before 3000 BC. B.
17715 32-40-322 (none) (none) Seal. Persian type. Chalcedone. Pierced for threading, engraved lines on face [drawing 1:1].
7065 (none) 1927,0527.203 (none) Seal. Grey stone. Oblong rounded ends, on one side lion with flowing tail devouring a bird, on the other a human head, at side a fish, and on opposite side 5 holes in a line. E.
17732 (none) (none) (none) Seal. Chalcedony. Persian. [drawing 1:1]
6066 (none) (none) B16292 Seal. Black steatite. Triangular shape scorpion and? Lizard? About BC 2600. E.
6988 (none) (none) B16302 Seal. Amethyst. Blue-violet. Flat on one side, convex on the other but not completely rounded, apex top. Hawk with spread wings, legs crossed in middle of breast. Neo-Babylonian. E.