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Description (Catalog Card): Cylinder seal. Limestone. Grey. Figures faint. 2 rampant lions facing one another; on either side a hero grasps each by the tail. Between the heroes a heavily draped erect deity. Attributes: snake, palm tree? and scorpion?1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): surface soil     
Material (Catalog Card): Shell2     
Material (Catalog Card): Limestone2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): H. 18mm, D. 15mm     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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SM The meaning of this excavation area abbreviation is not clear, but its location is known to be immediately southeast of the giparu (KP) extending to the ehursag (HT) in the east. Badly preserved remains of a building were found here, distinct from the giparu. On a tentative reconstruction of the ground plan, Woolley suggests the original structure measured some 35x40 meters. The building remains date to the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period and many small tablets recording business transactions were found within. T.C. Mitchell, editing the UE 7 volume published after Woolley's death, notes that many of these tablets actually date to the reigns of Shulgi and Amar-Sin. According to Woolley, some of the tablets were twisted together as if in the process of being recycled to reuse their clay for new tablets. He also suggests, very tentatively and based only on a few minor and out-of-place bricks, that this building was originally a temple to Nin-Ezen. (none)
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Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:35 Page:121 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:35 Page:121 (none)
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