14489 | 31-17-16
| Description (Catalog Card): | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite.4 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PFT. D6 -9m [Also lists +8m, meaning unclear] |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Steatite6 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | L. 23mm, D. 26mm, |
| U Number: | 14489 |
| Object Type: | Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Season Number: | 08: 1929-1930 |
| Description (Modern): | Cylinder Seal, seated woman, pots, hut, spider |
| Description (Modern): | field number on object looks like U.14487 but the correct number is U.14489 CBS Register: Seal cylinder. diorite. oldest seal found in deep level. seated woman. pot, hut, spider, etc. worked with bore. UE X: two women in profile are squatting, one on a high couch provided with bull's leg feet, the othe ron a low divan flat on the ground. The first holds in her extended hands a round jar with handles; the second a spool of wool. More jars and spools surround the solid loom (?) behind them. This is built of uprights and a cross-bar surmounted by a star (?). A spider spinning its spiral thread, a goat bounding over its pen, complete the symbolic picture. Dark steattite cylinder. This seal was found in a well-authenticated setting, along with a bowl of glazed frit turquoise blue and the steatite carving in the round of a wild boar of the Jamdat-Nasr period.5 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Igneous >> Diorite |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite |
| Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): | 31-17-16 |
| Measurement (Diameter): | 26 |
| Measurement (X): | 24 |
| [1] looks like a ladder/bench |
| [2] spiral coming from what appears to be a pot with legs |
| [3] pot(?) |
| [4] Woolley's description |
| [5] Modern description |
| [6] Material as described by Woolley |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | D.6 | PFT | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods | 1955 | Woolley, L. | (none) |
| Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders | Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders | 1951 | Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:59 Page:165 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:59 Page:165 | (none) |
- 3 Media
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Context
Excavation Context: Ur >> Pit F >> D.6
References
Woolley, L. . (1955) Ur Excavations IV; The Early Periods, Oxford: Oxford University Press.