14852 | 32-40-473

Description (Catalog Card): Seal impression. Geometrical, including possible sign: Good impression of string. Good impression of string underneath. [drawing]1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS 4     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
U Number: 14852     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 68 no. 55 'U14852. UM 32.40.473 (formerly 31.16.633). UE 3:448. SIS4. H >4.3, L >8.5. Overlapping rollings. Edinnu motif. Sealing 9.5 x 3.8 x 2.3. Reverse has impression of lower rim, neck and shoulder of vessel, neck di. 9.0. Under the rim are leather creases. Several rows of neat string circle the neck, sd di. 0.2, sg di. 0.3, TP 0.5, SSD: Z. Functional type: pot with covering' UE 3 p. 41 no. 448: 'Fragment of similar composition. The edinnu motive. U. 14852. SIS 4. Pl. 55. (P. CBS. 31.16.383.)' UPenn db: 'UE III: published as 31-16-383. Clear rope impressions. Fragment similar to: Panelled construction between the edinnu and the cross motive. The latter has four legs in the four branches round the central circle.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 32-40-473     
[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)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:60 Page:218 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:60 Page:218 (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.

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Clay Seals and Sealings