Title: Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions     
Date: 1936     
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)
18397C 33-35-290 (none) (none) [A-H] Clay jar sealing. Fragments of impressed with finely drawn linear design which contains possible hieroglyphic elements.
18397A 33-35-293 (none) (none) [A-H] Clay jar sealing. Fragments of impressed with finely drawn linear design which contains possible hieroglyphic elements.
18395 33-35-280 (none) (none) [A-K] Clay jar stoppers. Fragments of, with stamped design of leaves or scales. 11 fragments in all.
18394A 33-35-263 (none) (none) [A-Q] Clay jar stoppers. Fragments of. With roughly incised decoration. 16 fragments in all.
18311 33-35-261 (none) (none) Clay seal impression. Long strip of clay on which a very fair impression. A standing figure (?): before him a small figure fallen backwards (?): behind him two dwarflike figure in violent action (?) = above a guilloche: beyond them, two rampant beasts heraldically crossed (?)
18310 33-35-260 (none) (none) Clay seal impression. In a rectangular frame a guilloche, the strands made up of 3 narrow bands at one end, remains of an animal scene.
18280 33-35-258 (none) (none) Clay label. Dark blackish-brown clay. Oval, with string hole through its leng and side plain, one roughly incised on the dry or nearly dry clay, thus: [reference to to drawing] [drawing 1:1]
18169 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled. Female figure with reptilian head: Al Obaid type. Fragment, from the waist upwards. [drawing 1:1]
17883 (none) (none) (none) Clay jar-sealing with archaic seal-impression elaborate curvilinear design including heads of men and bulls combined.
17249S 52-30-189 (none) (none) U number not assigned in field
16287 (none) 1931,1010.353 (none) Clay roundel. On which is stamped in relief the figure of a flying bird. [drawing 1:1]
16049 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Commercial. Date:-year in which Anshan was laid waste. Dungi 32 (SAKI 231) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
15695 (none) (none) (none) Card Missing
15689 (none) (none) (none) Jar-sealing. Inscription.
15659 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Men. Eagle. Tree.
15658 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Spirals.
15655 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Small tablet containing a linear design. HC2000
15061 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Jar-sealing (adorant & throned god, with crescent) not SIS collection.
15060 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Jar-sealing (not SIS collection) men, in attitude not clear.
15056 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Jar-sealing. But not from the archaic collection 9about Larsa period?) 3 figures, from one water flows. Small gazelle, etc.
15052 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Jar-sealing. But not belonging to the SIS collections. Looped trellis pattern, scorpions, & traces of inscription of not very early appearance (?)
15046 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. 3 or more human figures in file.
15045 31-16-676 (none) (none) Seal impression. Geometrical and rosette stamp.
15022 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Jar. Fragmentary. Animal figures?
15019 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Large sealing. Eagle, human figure, gazelle, gateway? (a cult scene?)

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Room 6 Room 6 presented no features of interest. (none)
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Excavation Context: Ur >> AH Site | AH >> Niche Lane | Shop Street >> No. 4 Niche Lane >> Room 6


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