Description (Catalog Card): Seal Impression. Linear Design. (some resemblance to signs in certain details)     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS 4     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay1     
U Number: 14618B     
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 70 no. 82 'U14618b. BM. Moorey 454 (not the same as UE 3:454). SIS4. H >3.3, L >5.8. Three rollings. Symbols: ?leg cross, ? Sealing 5.2 x 3.4 x 2.4. Coarse string, sg di. 0.6. on reverse. Base level with straw plaster impressions from wall. Functional type: door peg.' Moorey (1979) p. 107 no. 454 'In reconstructing this design, Legrrain cites this fragment and 27 others, numbered U.20083. It is impossible to see where this piece ?ts into his reconstructed design. It is almost certainly part of an equally complicated, but independent. geometrical pattern. It illustrates all too clearly the dangers of reconstructing designs of this type in the absence of any guide from comparable cylinder seals. U.14618 : SIS 4.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
[1] Material as described by Woolley

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Unpublished Early Dynastic sealings from Ur in the British Museum. Unpublished Early Dynastic sealings from Ur in the British Museum. 1979 Moorey, P. R. S. (none)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)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:60 Page:15 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:60 Page:15 (none)
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