18394A | 33-35-263

Description (Catalog Card): [A-Q] Clay jar stoppers. Fragments of. With roughly incised decoration. 16 fragments in all.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG Pit W SIS IV-V     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
U Number: 18394A     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Vessels/Containers >> Lids >> Stopper      
Season Number: 11: 1932-1933      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Description (Modern): UE 3 p. 37 no. 394: 'Same clever composition or wind-rose made of two human heads and of two crouching bulls, apparently meaning 'master of all the human beings'-the salmat qaqqadi-'and all the cattle of the plain'. The pictographs around are bull, lion, and goat's head and a curious lion-headed bird devouring a spare limb. U. 18394. Pit W. SIS 4-5. Pl. 53.' Matthews (1993) p. 68-69 no. 57 'U18394. UM 33.35.273. UE 3:394. PG, ?SIS4. H >4.5, L >6.0. Multiple rollings. Freely arranged symbols: human/bull heads, animal heads and unclear motifs. Sealing 5.5 x 4.7 x 4.3. Sealing is of conical shape with string hole, including knot, running from centre of base to apex, sg di. 0.5. Base is covered in clear split-reed matting impressions. Functional type: reed matting package.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 33-35-263     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:188 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:188 (none)
Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions 1936 Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard (none)
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)
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Publication Context: Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Seal Impression Strata | SIS >> SIS 4-5

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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