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)
Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery 1934 Woolley, Leonard (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)
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