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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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| 7539 | (none) | (none) | B17206 | Terracotta figurine. Enthroned goddess wearing flounced kaunakes dress, high horned headdress, hair hangs below shoulders and ends in a curl. Both hands clasped over waist. High horned headdress rising in tiers. Throne has a straight back to it.. Behind the seat at an angle of 45 degrees to it are two fragmentary legs protruding well behind the plaque os that the plaque could have originally stood vertically, supported by its props on the table. On either side of the headdress horns and from either side of the top cow's ears. [drawing 1:3] | |
| 7552 | (none) | (none) | B16885, B16885 | Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Inscribed. Scene of worship. Shamash standing with left foot on raised step, right foot on ground, left hand raised to greet heavily draped male figure whose left shoulder is bare. Behind a goddess wearing flounced kaunakes skirt with hands upraised, and behind goddess AIA? a warrior with a bent staff carried in right arm. Below the inscription a Simish. Attributes: crescent and moon and Simish. Inscription: ^dBABBAR(^ilSumas): ^dA-A(^ilAia). | |
| 7556 | (none) | (none) | B16886, B16886 | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed: practically illegible? Scene of worship: Minor deity introducing worshipper to Nannar before whom stands the crescent moon on a staff. | |
| 7570 | (none) | (none) | B17209 | Terracotta figurine. Grotesque. Missing below waist. Bearded male figure wearing fringed turbine wound round head in tiers? and supporting vertically against the body two ceremonial litni which rest on either shoulder, curved tops reaching top of head. 2 incisions around each litnus at the top in the straight portion. Nose thick and shapeless. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 7583 | (none) | (none) | B16903 | Cylinder seal. Fragment. Marble, White Scene of worship. Heavily draped god seated on throne without a back holding in outstretched left hand a bird? Above double crescent moon? & between seated god and advancing figure a second bird? Second advancing fig. clean shaven, & heavily draped in long flairing skirt, behind him a goose? and behind the goose a goddess? in a flounced kaunakes skirt, both arms upraised? Behind the throne of the seated god Gilgamesh? with tail. | |
 | 7600 | (none) | (none) | B17195 | Lion. Limestone. White. Fragment. Broken away behind back of head represented as couched, head resting on forelegs tips of which are missing. Flattened base. Cavity running length-ways down the middle of the body to receive post. Existing portion broken and mended. |
| 7615 | (none) | (none) | B16894 | Cylinder seal. Limestone. Grey. Figures faint. Scene of worship. Minor deity leads worshipper by the hand towards seated Nannar. Attributes: crescent moon and palm. | |
| 7617 | (none) | (none) | B16877 | Cylinder seal. Marble. White. 4 bulls rampant of which 3 have human heads, bearded and horned. On either side a rampant lion. Grotesque figure with himan body, animal's head, (possibly a donkey's head??) conical headdress and pig tail? grasps one lion by the tail. c. 3000BC | |
| 7641 | (none) | (none) | B16861 | Cylinder seal. Green stone. Slightly concave. Broken in antiquity but remended and complete. Gilgamesh and Enkidu back to back the former fighting a rampant bull the latter fighting a rampant lion. | |
| 7656 | (none) | (none) | B16865 | Cylinder seal. Marble. Mottled grey and black. Slightly concave. Gilgamesh fighting rampant lion; Enkidu fighting rampant bull; lion and bull back to back. c. 2800BC. | |
| 7658 | (none) | (none) | B16890 | Cylinder seal. Marble? White. Hero between two rampant bulls? On either side of bulls a rampant lion. Between the lions a post surmounted by a star. | |
| 7680 | (none) | (none) | B16893 | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Obliterated. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated presiding deity. | |
| 7687 | (none) | (none) | B17210 | Terracotta figurine. Nude female. Hands clasped below breast. Missing below knees. Hair represented by fine parallel raised bands and flowing down at side onto shoulders. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7894 | (none) | (none) | B16881 | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated Nannar. Nannar and minor deity wear flounced kaunakes skirt and low head dress. Votary shaven and shorn wearing long skirt fringed in front. Behind votary a rampant lion between 4 vertical lines, which may represent the doors of a shrine? Attributes: crescent moons one against the other as on the burnt bricks of Sin-Iddinam. | |
| 7920 | (none) | (none) | B16900 | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Scene of worship before Nannar. Enthronoed Nannar wearing horned headdress extends right hand to greet 2 standing gods also wearing horned headdress and with left arm upraised. Attributes: crescent moon and spear? with a shaped top. | |
| 7956 | (none) | (none) | B16856 | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli: tall slender type broken in antiquity; mended. Two registers: above, 2 worshipers approaching a seated goddess with crescent. Below, 3 worshipers approaching a seated goddess with star; behind her a tree. | |
| 7989 | (none) | (none) | B16864 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite with silver caps. Subject Gilgamesh and Eabana fighting bulls. (N.B.) part of the linen thread was preserved in the hole) | |
| 7990 | (none) | (none) | B16789 | Cylinder seal of grey mottled stone -- ? fossilised coral. Much worn: subject: crossed goats and 3 persons pouring libations. | |
| 8006 | (none) | (none) | B16889 | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers: above, 2 seated figures, table and door. Below, 2 animals? Very deep cutting and most primitive style. | |
| 8113 | (none) | (none) | B17212 | Terracotta plaque. Bottom half missing. In low relief. Two upright figures heavily draped and wearing conical headdresses stand with hands upraised facing either side of vertical post. Post is broader below than above. It has a narrow neck and a concave top broader than the neck, supporting what may be a crescent moon? Behind each standing figures a mace with a rounded head, fixed vertically in the ground. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 8290 | (none) | (none) | B16863 | 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. | |
| 8292 | (none) | (none) | B17196 | Head of male. Unbaked clay. Not made in a mould. Traces of black paint under the eyes. Hole pierced through bottom of head vertically to hold a pole. | |
| 8325 | (none) | (none) | B16802 | Figurine of bull in lapis lazuli wearing a false beard. [drawing] 1:1 Style of the 1st Dynasty of Ur. | |
| 8416 | (none) | (none) | B16870 | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Green. Small piece missing near one end. Inscribed. Slightly concave. Two rampant lions back to back. Each is attacked by a naked bearded and horned hero. Between the 2 lions tails 3 vertical lines with rounded heads standing above a pair of spread wings? - thus [drawing] | |
| 8472 | (none) | (none) | B17197 | Head of priest. Shaven? and shorn Limestone White. Face entirely lost - ears and back of head alone remain Hole pierced through bottom of neck to admit a pole. |