Description (Catalog Card): Cylinder Seal. White shell much decayed. Subject: a man & 2 lions rampant against a deer? upside down.3     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1054 A6     
Material (Catalog Card): Shell7     
Material (Catalog Card): Calcite7     
Measurement (Catalog Card): L. 35mm, D. 16mm     
U Number: 11528     
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 07: 1928-1929      
Description (Modern): CBS Register. Ur 1928-9, Season VII. Cylinder Seal. calcite. Hunter, lions, inverted goat. bull. UE II: Cylinder seal, shell. Much decayed.4     
Description (Modern): Cylinder Seal made out of shell. Poor condition. Human figures, possibly lions attacking a goat or deer. approx. 30mm (on display so no exact measurement).      
Description (Modern): Cylinder Seal5     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Calcite Group >> Calcite      
Material: Organic Remains >> Shell      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 30-12-8     
Measurement (Weight): 16.905     
Measurement (X): 34.005     
Measurement (Y): 34.005     
Measurement (Z): 16.505     
Unit : PG 1054 A6     
[1] possibly a deer
[2] possibly a bullman
[3] Woolley's description
[4] Modern description
[5] Aubrey Baadsgaard, “Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia” (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008).
[6] SW Corner
[7] Material as described by Woolley

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery 1934 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia 2008 Baadsgaard, Aubrey (none)
UPM Field Photo numbers UPM Field Photo numbers (none) (none) (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:49 Page:130 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:49 Page:130 (none)
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