Description (Catalog Card): Stamp seal. Shell. Archaic. Perforated horizontally through top twice. Seal is cut to represent calf with head bent back over the body. Under side engraved with design of 3 bird headed men rowing a bellum. The bellum is made of reeds intertwined vertically and horizontally. From the furrow and stem of the boat a spike (?) for ramming protrudes horizontally to the line of the boat. Each figure appears to have a circular shield (?) round the body.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): At 9.3m in the rubbish round PG1769 therefore earlier than that grave     
Material (Catalog Card): Shell3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): L. 0033 grtst w. 0014 ht. 0005     
[1] U number divided because Woolley double assigned number in field. His division remains.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

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Media: 14441A | 1930,1213.140 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery 1934 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Provisional Field Photo Album Provisional Field Photo Album (none) (none) (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:59 Page:68 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:59 Page:68 (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:59 Page:69 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:59 Page:69 (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:59 Page:70 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:59 Page:70 (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:59 Page:070_V Card -- BM ID:194 Box:59 Page:070_V (none)
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