Description (Catalog Card): Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Obliterated. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated presiding deity.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): in waggon rubish from N. corner of Temenos     
Material (Catalog Card): Diorite2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): H. 25mm, D. 10mm     
U Number: 7680     
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 05: 1926-1927      
Description (Modern): Cylinder seal. diorite. concave. worshipping seated figure. UE X: introduction to a seated goddess. In her extended hand she seems to hold a jar or bottle out of which streams are escaping and falling in a tub at her feet. Her throne is of the gate-like type. Concave steatite cylinder.     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Igneous >> Diorite      
Museum Number (UPM B-number): B16893     
Measurement (X): 25     
Measurement (X): 25     
Measurement (Y): 13     
Measurement (Y): 10     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
Temenos Wall | TW The excavation area abbreviation TW stands for Temenos Wall, a wall that surrounded the ziggurat terrace and its extended sacred space in the northern central portion of the city of Ur through much of its history. The wall may have begun in the Early Dynastic period, as Woolley found some indication of what he believed to be its earliest foundation. There was clearly an Ur III period version that ran south of the giparu and then further southeast to encompass the ehursag. This was the general line of the wall through the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian and into the Kassite period, though the Kassites made some changes in the northern portion. Finally, the Neo-Babylonians changed the wall greatly, expanding the area encompassed to the north and south and adding several gateways. The foundations of this later, quite massive, wall often destroyed earlier remains. Woolley explored parts of the temenos wall in many seasons and frequently used the TW abbreviation for the wall in any of its building periods. Other excavation area abbreviations include parts of the temenos, particularly NCF, PDW and BC. The temenos wall built by Urnamma was 6 meters thick and built of mud brick with a baked brick facing. Most of the baked brick had been removed, probably for later building. The Nebuchadnezzar and Nabonidus temenos wall had chambers within it and sported six gates into the temenos area. This area was known as e-gish-nu-gal (Woolley read this e-gish-shir-gal). At least one later interpretation conflates TW with the phrase Town Wall, but the wall surrounding Ur was always referred to as the city wall, (CLW). (none)
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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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:35 Page:183 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:35 Page:183 (none)
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