18401B | 33-35-314

Description (Catalog Card): [A-L] Clay jar sealings. Fragments of. With impressed decoration designs, mixed types.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG Pit W SIS IV-V     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
U Number: 18401B     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 11: 1932-1933      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 71 no. 88 'U18401. UM 33.35.314. UE 3:460. PG, Pit W, SIS4-5. H >2.3, L >3.8. One rolling. Unclear motifs. Sealing 5.7 x 2.4 x 1.0. Flat tongue of clay with no markings. Functional type: test strip.' UE 3 p. 42 no. 460 'A pictograph. The sign lum. U. 18401. Pit W. SIS 4-5.'     
Description (Modern): This seal impression has been partially destroyed. This is according to a letter dated 5 May 1966 From R.R.B Kearton to R.H. Dyson, Jr. regarding damage due to storage under the auditorium in humid and inadequate conditions.2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 33-35-314     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Modern description
[3] 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: 18401B | 33-35-314 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)
Provisional Field Photo Album Provisional Field Photo Album (none) (none) (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:72 Page:194 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:194 (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