648 - UrOnline

Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Impressed
Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Inscribed

Description (Catalog Card):	Cylinder seal. White steatite. 2 standing figures of a man being introduced by a god the latter with Sumerian flounced dress, then 2 columns of inscription, then (indistinct), a palm with drooping symmetrical date-clusters. Good engraving of 3rd dyn. style.¹
Find Context (Catalog Card):	Temenos wall, SW front
Material (Catalog Card):	Steatite²
Measurement (Catalog Card):	l. 0022

U Number:	648
Object Type:	Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals
Season Number:	01: 1922-1923
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite
Measurement (X):	22

[1] Woolley's description

[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	TWSW	(none)	(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:23 Page:148	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:23 Page:148	(none)

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Context

Excavation Context: Ur >> Temenos Wall | TW >> TWSW

References

Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard. (1951) Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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