13901 | 1930,1213.401

Description (Catalog Card): Seal impression. Geometrical designs. see 130911     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS 4     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
U Number: 13901     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): UE 3 p. 41 no. 446: 'Pictographic inscription. The edinnu motive, a plain or orchard. A panelled construction and stars. The sign AB, the abode with side buckle. The cross sign, reduced to the pole cutting the central circle. Eight-petalled rosette on the butt-end of the cylinder, d. 26 mm. U. I390I. SIS 4. Pl. 55.' Matthews (1993) p. 66 no. 36: 'U13901. BM 1930.12.13.401 UE 3:446. SIS4. H >3.7, L >8.2. Multiple over-lapping rollings and two stamp impressions. Symbols: ?cross, ?AB, edinnu. Sealing 9.8 x 5.2 x 3.9. Smooth peg, ?ared at head and base, di. 5.5, circled by two rows of loosely wound cord, sd di. 0.3, sg di. 0.5, TP 3.9, SSD: S. Base has impressions of plastered wall surface. Functional type: door peg.' Matthews (1993) p. 66 no. 36a. 'U13901. Di. 2.7, circ. 8.5. Eight-pointed rosette with border decoration.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1930,1213.401     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Cities, Seals, and Writing: Archaic Seal Impressions from Jemdet Nasr and Ur Cities, Seals, and Writing: Archaic Seal Impressions from Jemdet Nasr and Ur 1993 Matthews, R. J. (none)
Provisional Field Photo Album Provisional Field Photo Album (none) (none) (none)
Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions 1936 Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:57 Page:88 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:57 Page:88 (none)
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Publication Context: Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Seal Impression Strata | SIS >> SIS 4

References

Matthews, R. J. . (1993) Cities, Seals, and Writing: Archaic Seal Impressions from Jemdet Nasr and Ur, Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag.

Provisional Field Photo Album, .

Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard. (1936) Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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