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)
7027 (none) (none) B16301 Seal. White steatite. Round. Hole perforated horizontally through hemispherical sides. Flat on one side, hemispherical on the other. Hemispherical side has 3 grooves 0002 wide in all bisecting it and concentric circles decoration, 4 in all, 2 on either side of the bisecting line. On flat side in middle enthroned Nannar both hands supporting a post with a crescent moon which is also supported by a bull-man. Behind the throne a similar bull-man also supporting a crescent moon on a post, and below the throne a bull with high horns, crescent shaped. Bull-men (Eabani) are ithyphallic. Hair on legs of Eabani. E. Before 3000 BC.
16561B 19311010.33 (none) (none) Seal impressions. Uninscribed.
13617 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Probably from same cylinder. Presentation. Inscription: (Scribe of Dungi) HC.202.
13619 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Presentation. Inscription of Za-an-za-an, Scribe , servant of ? HC.203
13646 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Presentation. Horned god. Star and crescent.
13620 (none) 1948,0423.431 (none) Seal impression. On two fragments. Presentation (between introductor and seated god a small kneeling figure). Inscriptioin: A-gu servant of Lu dNannar. HC.204.
13621 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. On two fragments. Presentation (between introductor and seated god a small kneeling figure). Inscriptioin: A-gu servant of Lu dNannar. HC.204.
14167 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Brought in with SIS 4 jar-sealings, but looks later :presentation scene (?) bulla(?)
6950 (none) 1948,0423.429 (none) Seal impression on clay from tablet envelope III Ur Dynasty. Worshipper introduced to sealed goddess Ishtar-Ninni. Small lion below her throne. Kneeling Gilgamesh with spouting vase Nu-ili, scribe, nu[ ].
10130 (none) (none) (none) Seal Impression Presentation scene: goddess enthroned, in kaukanes: crescent. 1st figure approaching. 2nd. figure approaching both hands raised. Inscription Nin-tur dam gi-si dumu-sal la (.) a-la (.)-a. HC 175
3236 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. IIIrd Ur Dynasty. [drawing]
2994 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. III Ur Dynasty. [drawing]
2892 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. About BC 2800 [drawing]
3234 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Pottery. Broken - Neo-Babylonian.
3237 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Diorite. IIIrd Ur Dynasty. [drawing]
9976 (none) (none) B16858 Seal White marble Oval: rounded top, flat base on which figures of animals roughly done with a drill [drawing] 1:1
497 (none) (none) B15250 Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
16113 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Yellow glazed frit. [drawing 1:1]
16120 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Dark green glazed frit. Engraved with crescent moon and squatting man. [drawing]
496 (none) (none) B15255 Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
17355 31-43-71 (none) (none) Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA?
1462 (none) (none) (none) Relief fragment. Clay. Top with part of a human figure holding uncertain object in outstretched hand.
16025 31-43-27 (none) (none) Quartzite Cylinder seal. HC../30 UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
1509 (none) (none) (none) Plumb-bob. Black stone, with hole at end and 3 at side, and remains of copper wire within. Like U.1502. In text, see U.1359
17400 (none) (none) (none) Pendant. Steatite. Black. Rectangular. Faces slightly convex. Engraved with linear decoration. [drawing]