University of Pennsylvania Museum
This museum is located in Philadelphia, PA, US.
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is an educational and research institution dedicated to the understanding of cultural diversity and the exploration of the history of humankind. This museum funded half of the Ur excavations, and as such has approximately 1/4 of the objects from Ur.
Objects: University of Pennsylvania Museum Export: JSON - XML - CSV Clay Seals and Sealings
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (none) | 30-12-42 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
 | (none) | 35-1-23 | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-16-611 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 31-16-627 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 31-16-639 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| 16759D | 31-43-73 | (none) | (none) | 4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs. |
| 16190 | 31-43-8 | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Shell. Flattened double conoid. Engraved with design of snaked(?) | |
| 18341 | 33-35-164 | (none) | (none) | Animal's body. Grey steatite. Body of couchant animal, the hind quarters complete, in fairly high relief: the front leg only sketched: the stone is rounded off at the shoulder so that there never was a head. The body is flat and bears two engraved signs thus. [drawing] |
| 16397 | 31-43-74 | (none) | (none) | Button seal. Baked clay. Glazed. Bleached white. Stamped with scorpion. Dome-shaped bulbous dome stamped with 4 concentric circles. [drawing] |
| 17341 | 31-43-76 | (none) | (none) | Button seal. Steatite(?). White. Fragment. Half only remains. Animals. With a boss on the upper side perforated for suspension. |
| 1044 | (none) | (none) | B15271 | Button seal. White quartzite, oval top. Roughly engraved with date. [drawing] | |
| 775 | (none) | (none) | B15248 | Carnelian cylinder seal. Archer in chariot driving rt. shoots at kneeling archer l. Late style with a good deal of drill point work, but not bad. ? 8th century. | |
| 487 | (none) | (none) | B15256 | Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [referencing drawin] [drawing] | |
| 18490 | 33-35-465 | (none) | (none) | Clay jar sealing (fragment) with impression of seal apparently in script (black) [drawing] |
| 18403 | 33-35-331 | (none) | (none) | Clay jar sealing, fragment of. Bearing a very clear impression of the cloth which was wrapped round it. | |
| 18405 | 33-35-344 | (none) | (none) | Clay jar sealing, fragment of. With elaborate design including human figures. | |
| 18412 | 33-35-389 | (none) | (none) | Clay jar sealing. Fragment of. Scene of soldiers marching. |
| 18411 | 33-35-388 | (none) | (none) | Clay jar sealing. Fragment of. Scene of two men with pots etc. | |
| 18398 | 33-35-297 | (none) | (none) | Clay jar sealing. Fragment of. Stamped with linear design apparely including script elements. Good example. | |
| 18398B | 33-35-298 | (none) | (none) | Clay jar sealing. Fragment of. Stamped with linear design apparely including script elements. Good example. | |
| 18410 | 33-35-387 | (none) | (none) | Clay jar sealing. Fragment of. With scene of two men fighting: pots and a gazelle. |
| 18399A | 33-35-300 | (none) | (none) | Clay jar sealings, Fragments of. Impressed with complicated linear designs in fine raised lines. | |
| 18413A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay jar sealings. Fragment of unclassified designs, mostly with men and animals. |
| 18413AA | 33-35-416 | (none) | (none) | Clay jar sealings. Fragment of unclassified designs, mostly with men and animals. | |
| 18413AB | 33-35-417 | (none) | (none) | Clay jar sealings. Fragment of unclassified designs, mostly with men and animals. |
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