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)
(none) 31-16-613 (none) (none) [no catalog card from field]
13975 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Inscription.
14101 31-16-655 (none) (none) Seal impressions. Three more impressions from the same cylinder as 13970 adding a new city ideogram and some other signs and ornaments.. HC.218
(none) 31-16-614 (none) (none) [no catalog card from field]
18413B 33-35-415 (none) (none) Clay jar sealings. Fragment of unclassified designs, mostly with men and animals.
20083E 35-1-702 (none) (none) [A-AH] Seal impressions on mud jar sealings. All accidentally burnt and all fragmentary.
14188 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Inscription. HC.223. UET II: 322).
12778C.1 31-17-352 (none) (none) Group of objects: from PG/NW level; found between levels -760 and -800 below the planoconvex brick pavement (A) Clay animal figurine. (B) [.1-.6] Fragment of long clay beads imitating shell. (C) [.1-.9] A number of clay jar-sealing with seal impressions, all of one type, palmette enclosed (imperfect) [reference to drawing]. (see over [Annotated] Legrain 480 (D) An oval clay object. [Annotated] Legrain 481. (see over) [Drawing of impression] (E) Tubular ball (?) bead. (F) Copper needle. (G) [.1-.13] Various examples of pottery. [H] (also animal bones). -- The design on D and C is the same [drawing of design].
8783 (none) (none) B17463 Bradawl. Bitumen handle, copper borer, tip of bore missing. [drawing]
9696 (none) (none) (none) Beads 4, 3 carnelian and 1 gold apparently used to join up the 2 cylinder seals with which they were found.
10365 (none) (none) (none) Necklace Agate, jasper, shell, carnelian lentoids, copper ball beads For order see Field Note
18553B 33-35-482 (none) (none) [A-L] Seal impressions on fragments of clay jar stopper. 12 in all. 1st dynasty types with human figures and animals.
18553D 33-35-484 (none) (none) [A-L] Seal impressions on fragments of clay jar stopper. 12 in all. 1st dynasty types with human figures and animals.
18553E 33-35-485 (none) (none) [A-L] Seal impressions on fragments of clay jar stopper. 12 in all. 1st dynasty types with human figures and animals.
18553L 33-35-492 (none) (none) [A-L] Seal impressions on fragments of clay jar stopper. 12 in all. 1st dynasty types with human figures and animals.
(none) (none) (none) (none) [Card Missing]
14841B 31-16-642 (none) (none) [A-B] Jar-sealings. Two pieces. Perhaps belonging together scratched with signs. HC.2038.
1133 (none) 1924,0920.119 (none) Clay jar-stopper. Fragment with impression of archaic cylinder seal. Erect animals and men. [drawing 1:1]
12776G.1 (none) 1928,1010.745 (none) Group of objects: (A) Small fragment of obsidian vase. (B) [.1-.6] 3 long clay bugles, imitation of beads cut from core of shell. (C) Obsidian chip. (D) Jar - stopper of mud and lime, circular, one face flat, one convex, with rough incisions on flat face, perhaps accidental. (E) [.1-.2] Fragment of terracotta figure perhaps the head of a dragon (?). [Drawing] (F) Clay object, flat, with incised holes. (G) [.1-.6] Five fragments of clay jar sealings with seal impressions : all have rows of animals in wooded or rocky country. (H) [.1-.26] Pottery fragments 1) Plum red and back decoration on light ground: 2 examples. 2) Red decoration on light ground and other fragments. Not in catalog of Vol. IV.
12550 (none) 1928,1010.826 (none) Seal impression. From large cylinder. Man, beast, and rosette.
12544 (none) 1928,1010.827 (none) Seal impression. Line of dancers (?). Naked.
13005 (none) 1928,1010.830 (none) Seal impression. Square. Figure holding the uri-staff.
11690 (none) 1928,1010.831, 19281010.83 (none) Seal Impression. Bull (?)-Man embracing gazelle? Bird (small) holding the gazelle? Horned ? -man holding the bird. In front of Horned (?) man Scorpion, behind him, serpent. Illegible? fragment of Inscription.
14783 (none) 1930,1213.396 (none) Seal impression. Large v . perfect sealing with leaf pattern(?)
15018 (none) 1930,1213.397 (none) Seal impression. Large sealing. Antelopes, man, duck.

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Room 6 Room 6 presented no features of interest. (none)
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