18124T | 32-40-365
| Description (Catalog Card): | [A-DK] Seal impressions. A large collection, giving impressions (baked) of Greek, Persian and Babylonian gems. Green coins, etc. (See separate notes)1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | NNCF. Found together in a clay coffin of Persian type (with no bones or other objects): the coffin edge was flush with the modern surface in the low-lying central part of the site. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Clay3 |
| U Number: | 18124T |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Object Type: | Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression |
| Season Number: | 10: 1931-1932 |
| Description (Modern): | NOT A SEAL [NO FURTHER INFO GIVEN IN KEARTON LETTER]This seal impression has been completely 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): | 32-40-365 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Modern description |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| NNCF | This area lies beyond (north/northwest of) Nebuchadnezzar's corner fort (NCF) at the west corner of the temenos wall. In seasons 10 and 11 the area was somewhat systematically excavated, initially creating a shallow trench from the northwest terrace and temenos wall almost to the city wall some 100 meters away. According to the 1932 reports, it was "enlarged into a regular excavation covering the area of a number of houses," and this expansion was continued in season 11. Excavations were taken through Persian (mostly surface) level down only a small depth to relatively well preserved house remains of the late Kassite and Neo-Babylonian periods. Many of the houses had graves under their floors. Woolley did not map or record the houses or graves, saying in his Antiquaries Journal report for 1932 (p.390): "They produced no objects of importance, but the graves did yield a certain number of glazed vases, beads and seals." Publication does not do justice to the extent of this excavation area. Only XNCF, a smaller excavation of domestic space along the NW temenos is published in UE8 and that in only a few paragraphs. | (none) |
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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:71 Page:119 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:71 Page:119 | (none) |
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