14836A

Description (Catalog Card): Seal impression. Parts of an elaborate design (some resemblance to signs in parts but these not identifiable). & another piece.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): Probably A. SIS 4     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
U Number: 14836A     
Museum: The National Museum of Iraq      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 71 no. 91 'U14836a, IM 49709. U14836b, BM. UE 3:406. UET 2:334. Probably SIS4. H >3.3, L >8.5. Symbols, largely unclear. U14836a. Sealing 7.6 x 5.0 x 2.0. Two rollings. Grainy peg (?wood), with ?ared head and base, di. 2.5. Four rows of unclear string. Smooth, level base from plastered wall. Functional type: door peg.' UE 3 p. 38 no. 406 'Fragment. Constructions with pointed roof. Unknown pictographs perhaps on a Pre-Elamite seal. Oval enclosures, jar in a basket (?), crescent, and star (?). U. 14836. SIS 4. Pl. 53.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (IM Number): IM 49709     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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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)
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:60 Page:205 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:60 Page:205 (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.

Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard. (1936) Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Burrows, E. (1935) Ur Excavations Texts II: Archaic Texts, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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