13933 | 31-16-645

Description (Catalog Card): Seal impressions. Geometrical, perhaps belonging together.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS 4     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
U Number: 13933     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 64 no. 15 'U13933. UM 31.16.645. UE 3:418. SIS4. H >3.1, L >4.7. two rollings. Single register of symbols: ?snake AB, U4 UNUG (Larsa), leg cross, edinnu. Sealing 5.5 x 7.2 x 2.8. Reverse face has no curve, but has string impressions, sd di. 0.3, sg di. 0.5, TP 1.2, SSD: Z. String is made of coarse vegetable matter, probably palm ?bre. Functional type: ?package.' UPenn db: 'CBS Register: fragment of clay jar stopper with seal impressions. linear inscription UE III: pictographic inscription. The edinnu, the cross divided into four quarters and surrounded by a star, a lozenge, a curved club, an arrow (?). The pictographs of Larsa and of hte city of the spread eagle.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 31-16-645     
[1] linear, short and long lines
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

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Media: 13933 | 31-16-645 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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:111 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:57 Page:111 (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.

[title missing], .

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Clay Seals and Sealings