8615
| Description (Catalog Card): | Cylinder seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above: three seated deities(?) with a worshipper in front of each. Below: door: 3 seated and 3 standing figures. Archaic style.1 |
| Description (Archival): | Cylinder Seal2 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 337 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Lapis lazuli3 |
| U Number: | 8615 |
| Object Type: | Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
| Description (Modern): | Lapis cylinder seal. 2 registers of old sumerian banquet. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Lapis Lazuli |
| Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B16828 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 38.902 |
| Measurement (X): | 40 |
| Measurement (X): | 20.402 |
| Measurement (Y): | 20 |
| Measurement (Y): | 20.402 |
| Measurement (Z): | 42.502 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Aubrey Baadsgaard, Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia (PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2008). |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | PG/337 | The earliest of the royal graves found, it was identified as such after the criteria for royal graves was established. This grave appeared in Trial Trench E and was not well mapped, but reportedly contained remains of a mudbrick wall that Woolley later interpreted as the destroyed tomb chamber associated with a death pit. | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | 1934 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| British Museum Photo Negatives | British Museum Photo Negatives | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia | Trends, Traditions, and Transformations: Fashions in Dress in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia | 2008 | Baadsgaard, Aubrey | (none) |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:51 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:39 Page:51 | (none) |
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Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> TTE >> PG/337
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
British Museum Photo Negatives, .