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)
16134 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. spread eagle and Ass(?) Unpierced
16146 31-43-29 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink steatite. Presentation scene: seated figure and two standing; emblem: pole with a forked top.
16147 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Theriomachy(?)
16150 (none) 1931,1010.53 (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Squatting monkey(?) bull, crescent moon .=L.622 [Typology?] Legrain puts seals 460-573 as Isin-Larsa. Numbers below 403 back to 270 as IIIrd Dynasty.
16155 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. one end chipped. 2 registers. Palm tree rising from a vase, scorpions(?) and geese.
16156 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Unpierced. Gilgamesh, Eabani & rampant lion.
16167 (none) (none) (none) Flat seal. Oval quartz. Engraved with design of winged dragon.
16171 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. God ascending a mountain. 3 deities approaching kneeling animal.
16174 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Fragment (half only). Black steatite. Presentation scene: 1 seated and 2 standing deities. Crescent moon and dog.
16177 31-43-26 (none) (none) Cylinder seal.White shell. Linear design.
16178 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Inscribed. Presentation scene: God enthroned on a dais(?) holding a vase(?) in his left hand. Two standing figures before the god. The first bare-headed wears tunic open at left shoulder, full right sleeve(?) skirt with fringes down back & front; the second has a high horned headdress and flounced kaukanes skirt.
16179 31-43-28 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Green steatite. Presentation scene: enthroned god and two standing figures.
16180 31-43-3 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Two rows of deeply incised circles.
16190 31-43-8 (none) (none) Amulet. Shell. Flattened double conoid. Engraved with design of snaked(?)
16211 31-43-1 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Pink limestone. In the form of a recumbent calf; on the flat back a rough design of 2 animals done with drill-holes and engraved lines. This is an early Sumerian piece which is found ina Persian period grave, and must have been an antiquity. [drawing 1:1]
16220 (none) 1931,1010.15 (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. A humped bull of Indian type feeding on a bundle of hay(?) in front of a palm tree: on the other side, a scorpion & above it, horizontally a man with feathered headdress. A remarkable seal.
16221 (none) 1931,1010.368 (none) Adze, clay model. Nearly complete: the cutting edge badly chipped & part of the rib-flange missing. [drawing 1:2]
16230 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene with seated god, one worshipper and introducing god.
16262 31-43-37 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene with standing god and three other figures.
16278 (none) 1931,1010.50 (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone, much worn. Two crossed gazelled & two heroes fighting, two bearded man-headed beasts whose bodies cross in the same fashion.
16279 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Seated god and standing worshipper; faint trace of inscription carefully erased.
1628 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed with scene of presentation to goddess.
16319 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. 37 beads. Agate lentoids, carnelian balls, glazed frit double conoids, 1 lapis lazuli double conoid, 1 rectangular calcite bead, carnelian barrels, 1 gold double conoid with ridged ends.
16324 (none) 1931,1010.249 (none) Beads. 1 carnelian ball; 2-chalcedony lentoids; 1 hemispherical section lapis lazuli.
16327 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Gilgamesh, Eabani, and rampant lion.