18397E | 33-35-292

Description (Catalog Card): [A-H] Clay jar sealing. Fragments of impressed with finely drawn linear design which contains possible hieroglyphic elements.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG Pit W SIS IV-V     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
U Number: 18397E     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 11: 1932-1933      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 66 no. 35 'U18397 (x3). UM. UE 3:395. PG, Pit W, SIS4-5. H >3.7, L >7.5. Freely arranged symbols: ?UR2, U4, edinnu with animal heads, ? U18397, UM 33.35.292. Sealing 2.1 x 2.1 X 1.9. One rolling. Reverse broken. Functional type; ?' UE 3 p. 37 no. 395 'Alternate horns dividing the field into cases in which are single pictographs: crescents, legs, flowers (?), leaves. The horns connected with a rectangular blade resemble the pictographic signs ur, the razor, and kin, a planting tool. There is a four-petalled rosette on the butt- end of the cylinder, d. 20 mm. U. 18397. Pit W. SIS 4-5. Three fragments. Pl. 52.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 33-35-292     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
SIS 4-5 (none) (none)
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Media: 18397E | 33-35-292 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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)
Provisional Field Photo Album Provisional Field Photo Album (none) (none) (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:191 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:191 (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.

Provisional Field Photo Album, .

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

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Clay Seals and Sealings