University of Pennsylvania Museum

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

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
16021	31-43-25, 31-43-25	(none)	(none)	Steatite Cylinder seal. Nana son of Gudea,the jeweller. HC.30/I.7. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16022	31-43-39, 31-43-39	(none)	(none)	Steatite Cylinder seal. Fragmentary . d.Sulpae son of... HC.30/I.8. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16025	31-43-27	(none)	(none)	Quartzite Cylinder seal. HC../30 UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16026	31-43-23	(none)	(none)	Steatite Cylinder seal. Fragment. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16104	31-43-54	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Greenish grey steatite. Presentation scene before seated deity. Palm tree.
16107	31-43-22	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Reddish stone. Linear design. Archaic.
16117	31-43-66	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Mauve chalcedony(?) Concial-suspended by copper wire. Roughly engraved with figure of a man. [drawing]
16122	31-43-50	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Banquet scene, 2 seated figures drinking from a common cup out of tubes. Behind one of them a standing figure. Poor cutting.
16127	87-28-1	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Greenish stone. Archaic. Broken in 2 pieces.
16146	31-43-29	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Pink steatite. Presentation scene: seated figure and two standing; emblem: pole with a forked top.
16148	31-43-77	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark green baked clay. Gilgamesh, Eabani & rampant lion.
16162	31-43-32	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. One end chipped. Presentation scene. One seated & 2 standing figures.
16173	31-43-38	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Fragment. Black steatite. Presentation scene: 1 seated and 2 standing deities.
16177	31-43-26	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal.White shell. Linear design.
16179	31-43-28	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green steatite. Presentation scene: enthroned god and two standing figures.
16180	31-43-3	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Two rows of deeply incised circles.
16190	31-43-8	(none)	(none)	Amulet. Shell. Flattened double conoid. Engraved with design of snaked(?)
16198A	31-43-213	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 bronze [bronze is struck through and silver written next to it] finger rings. (A) one with circular bezel. Phil.
16211	31-43-1	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Pink limestone. In the form of a recumbent calf; on the flat back a rough design of 2 animals done with drill-holes and engraved lines. This is an early Sumerian piece which is found ina Persian period grave, and must have been an antiquity. [drawing 1:1]
16262	31-43-37	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene with standing god and three other figures.
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]
16408	31-43-2	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Circular, convex above of striped black and white marble, design almost entirely perished; worked mostly with the drill. [drawing 1:1]
16546	31-43-36	(none)	(none)	Steatite cylinder seal. Ur-gar(?). HC.30/II, 2.
16547	31-43-51	(none)	(none)	Limestone cylinder seal Nin-es(?)-ba-na, Son of ... H.C. 30/II, 3.
16554	31-43-34, 31-43-34	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal, steatite. Ur-Ki(?)-dur(?)-sag(?) servant of... H.C. 30/II, 10