Description (Catalog Card): Cylinder seal. Shell. Pinkish. Slightly blackened by fire. Two registers. Subject indistinct. Above: A spread eagle. Below: A kneeling? man, and a snake? occupying the full length of the seal 2 winged dragons, crossed, and a rampant bull.4     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 168 TTE     
Material (Catalog Card): Shell5     
Measurement (Catalog Card): L. 004 d 0017     
U Number: 8290     
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 05: 1926-1927      
Description (Modern): Cylinder seal. shell. crossed lions, ibexes, spread eagle, kneeling man. UE II: Cylinder seal, pinkish shell, blackened by fire. Bad condition. Half of the circumference of the seal has one register only.     
Material: Organic Remains >> Shell      
Museum Number (UPM B-number): B16863     
Measurement (X): 40     
Measurement (Y): 19     
[1] stick figure
[2] possibly meant to show movement
[3] possible snake dragon vs. winged dragon
[4] Woolley's description
[5] Material as described by Woolley

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Field Photographs Field Photographs (none) (none) (none)
British Museum Photo Negatives British Museum Photo Negatives (none) (none) (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:37 Page:258 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:37 Page:258 (none)
Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery 1934 Woolley, Leonard (none)
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