14825C | 1930,1213.434

Description (Catalog Card): Seal Impressions. 2 Pieces. Probably belonging together. Stars, stylized reptile, etc. and rosette stamp.      
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS 4     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay1     
U Number: 14825C     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 67 no. 39 'U14775, BM 1930.12.13.424. U14825, BM 1920.12.13.434. U14882, BM. U18413a, UM 33.35.415. U18413b, UM 33.35.408. UE 3:281. Moorey 593. All SIS4. H 2.8, L 5.65. Complete impression surviving. One register of motifs: lizard, ?AN, ?scorpion, six-pointed UB, man. U14825. Sealing 6.2 x 4.3 x 4.1. Four rollings and one stamp impression. Smooth peg, di. 3.5. Level base. Functional type: door peg.' Matthews (1993) p. 67 no. 39a 'U14775, U14825, U14882, U18413a, U18413b. Di. 1.8, circ. 5.7. Poorly executed eight-pointed rosette.' Merlin: 'Description Part of a clay sealing; impressed with designs of animals and star in circle. Dimensions Length: 2.5 inches Width: 1.75 inches' UE 3 p. 29 no. 281 'A nude man, his hands held up, fighting huge lizards. Net, scorpion, leaves, star flowers, and perhaps a panelled construction. Eight-petalled rosette on the butt-end of the cylinder, d. 15 mm. U. 14775, U. 14825. SIS 4. Pl. 47. (P. CBS. 31.16.671.) U. 18402, U. 18413. Pit W. SIS 4-5.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1930,1213.434     
[1] Material as described by Woolley

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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)
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:197 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:60 Page:197 (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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