6002
| Description (Catalog Card): | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Below, figure Gilgamesh? prostrate above, offering to Ea, heraldic animals, etc. c. BC 2300. ? Brick. VII1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | NW side of E.H |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Diorite2 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | L. 27mm, D. 19mm |
| U Number: | 6002 |
| Object Type: | Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Season Number: | 04: 1925-1926 |
| Description (Modern): | CBS Register: cylinder seal. diorite. libation scene: overflowing bottle. crossed bulls, below Gilgamesh prostrate. Eagle, Monkey. UE X: A large Gilgamesh stretches horizontally in the lower zone of the seal. He is nude, except for his tripple belt, and wears his curly locks and splayed beard. His arms are raised high above his head, and his legs are spread apart. A squatting monkey fills the space between his legs, and a spread eagle turned upside down fills the space between his arms. In the upper zone a brick terrace limited by two crescents on poles runs along the body of Gilgamesh from armpit to knee. A priestess (?) in a flounced robe holds an overflowing bottle over an hour-glass-shaped altar. A little branch is planted in the neck of the bottle. Beyond the crescents on the pole, on one side a nude man holds a second overflowing bottle; on the other side, a second priestess (?) in flounced robe, stands up with clasped hands. Outside the terrace a group of two crossed bulls support a crescent. Seeparated from them by a vertical line a worshipper stands up with clasped hands. Grey steatite cylinder. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Igneous >> Diorite |
| Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B16287 |
| Measurement (Diameter): | 14 |
| Measurement (X): | 27 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| EH Site | EH | Area EH is located within the Neo-Babylonian temenos wall south of the giparu. There are many other area designations given to parts of this space (such as DP and LR), but EH overall refers to the interior extent of the SW temenos wall from the south corner almost to the Nebuchadnezzar gate and extending east to the line of Pit F. Walls in the area were scattered and difficult to follow, so Woolley established a grid covering at least 55x100 meters in 5x5 squares. The grid is not well documented but publication shows that Woolley began numbers to the east, increasing to the west, and letters to the south, increasing to the north; square 1,A therefore sits in the SE corner -- 11,T in the NW. The abbreviation EH stands for E-Hur-sag but the building of that name does not lie within this excavation zone. Woolley did not believe that the building to the east of this area (partially dug by H.R. Hall in 1919) was the e-hur-sag, the palace of Shulgi, despite bricks with the inscription of the building being found there. Instead he called that building Hall's Temple (HT) and sought the palace in many other places inside the temenos. He eventually conceded that HT was indeed the e-hur-sag and published EH without reference to the abbreviation's original meaning. The area Woolley called EH was the area Hall called the 'tomb mound' because it was relatively high ground in which he found a number of graves. Woolley showed that these were the remains of graves beneath the floors of houses dating from the Isin-Larsa to Kassite periods. EH in this time was likely an extension of the domestic area EM. In the Ur III period there appear to have been larger public buildings here, but their remains were spotty at best. Tablets from this area and area EM show that the residents of the domestic quarter in the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period were likely temple workers. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | British Museum Photo Negatives | British Museum Photo Negatives | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| UPM Field Photo numbers | UPM Field Photo numbers | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders | Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders | 1951 | Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:31 Page:2 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:31 Page:2 | (none) |
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