Description (Catalog Card): Seal impression. Elaborate pattern.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS. Find place doubtful.     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
U Number: 14652     
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 69 no. 63 'U14652. BM. Moorey 577. SIS, ?ndplace uncertain. H >3.9, L >7.5. Two rollings. Unclear motifs: ?edinnu. Sealing 4.7 x 5.5 x 3.8. Smooth peg with ?ared head and base, di. 3.5, with several rows of string, sd di. 0.3, sg di. 0.4, TP 1.3, SSD: Z. Level base. Functional type: door peg.' Moorey (1979) p. 112 no. 577 'Fragment of a complicated interlocking linear design with what may be dismembered animal heads set into the design. U.14652 : SIS     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
Seal Impression Strata | SIS This is a vertical distinction rather than a horizontal one. Located within the Area PG (the Royal Cemetery) these strata were noted sloping down and forming the material into which the graves were dug (mostly seen in the western portion of the cemetery area). They contained many early tablets and seal impressions, thus the name SIS (Seal Impression Strata). They appear to be evidence of many dumping episodes of administrative material probably thrown out from an important building such as an early shrine. There were eight separate strata noted, but not all could be traced over an extended area and there are conflations of several, such as SIS 4-5, where the exact stratum for an artifact could not be determined. (none)
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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)
Unpublished Early Dynastic sealings from Ur in the British Museum. Unpublished Early Dynastic sealings from Ur in the British Museum. 1979 Moorey, P. R. S. (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:60 Page:46 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:60 Page:46 (none)
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