14169
| Description (Catalog Card): | Seal impression (not evident if Jar-sealing) Inscription: ub ud-nun (=Adab) Su-dingir-sar+DU (=Kes) (??) Ses+AB (=Ur) and picture of a bird. So apparently picture writing and sign writing mingled. (cf. U.14170, U.13881) HC. UET II: 323)1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | SIS 4 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Clay2 |
| U Number: | 14169 |
| Museum: | The National Museum of Iraq |
| Object Type: | Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression |
| Season Number: | 08: 1929-1930 |
| Culture/Period: | Early Dynastic / Sumerian >> EDI-II |
| Description (Modern): | UE 3 p. 38 no. 400: '400. Pictographic inscription again including abstract and individual pictographs. First the cross sign divided into four quarters round the central circle. Then the UB sign surrounded by five leaves (?). The 'abode' pictograph with a double buckle on one side, perhaps uri, the city of Ur (?). A jar with a lid and a star between, the city of Kesh (?). A twin post with cross- bars surmounted by the sign of the rising sun, the city of Adab. A bird and egg (?) below a scorpion (or a star?), a city like Ninni-sh. U. I4169. SIS 4. P1. 53.' Matthews (1993) p. 62 no. 5 'U14169. IM 49703. UE 3:400. UET 2:323. SIS4. H >3.8, L >4.9. One rolling. Rather freely arranged symbols: U4+NUN (Adab), UB, bird, |
| Description (Modern): | Object is sealed. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired |
| Museum Number (IM Number): | IM 49703 |
| Museum Number (IM Number): | IM 49703 |
| Tablet ID Number: | P338137 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | SIS 4 | (none) | (none) |
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| 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) |
| Ur Excavations Texts II: Archaic Texts | Ur Excavations Texts II: Archaic Texts | 1935 | Burrows, E. | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:58 Page:89 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:58 Page:89 | (none) |
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Context
Publication Context: Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Seal Impression Strata | SIS >> SIS 4
References
Provisional Field Photo Album, .
Burrows, E. (1935) Ur Excavations Texts II: Archaic Texts, Oxford: Oxford University Press.