Unfired
This category includes all materials that have a clay base but are not fired originally. This includes objects such as tablets and mudbrick. It includes materials that may have been fired after discovery to help in conserving the object. It can also be refered to as mud figures or mud brick. It sometimes inlcudes organics or pieces of rock fragment as temper.
This category includes all materials that have a clay base but are not fired originally. This includes objects such as tablets and mudbrick. It includes materials that may have been fired after discovery to help in conserving the object. It can also be refered to as mud figures or mud brick. It sometimes inlcudes organics or pieces of rock fragment as temper.
Objects: Unfired 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12771N | 31-17-319D | (none) | (none) | Objects. (A) Miniature white calcite bowl (the rim chipped) thus [reference to drawing] [Type RC12]. [drawing 1:1] (B) Shallow bowl of basic diorite (?). (C) Fragment of stone bowl (?) re-used and pierced with 3 holes: basic diorite (?). [drawing] (D) Miniature square box roughly made from light drab clay. (E) Miniature clay bowl. (F) Miniature goblet in light drab clay thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2] (G) Wheelmade pot of pinkish clay with pin-hole orifice at neck (neck broken off). [drawing] (H) Clay bead (?) or handle (?) rough cylinder longitudinally pierced. [U.12771I not assigned] (J) Oval pebble burnisher. Thin and flat. (K) Flint chip. (L) Flint saw. (M) Part of clay jar-sealing with indistinct traces of relief. (N) Clay jar sealing with rows of animals. [drawing 1:1] (O) Flint hoe (?) of T.O. type [Tel Obaid]. | |
| (none) | 31-17-107 | (none) | (none) | Unknown | |
| 14789 | 31-16-682 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Large sealing-many animals. cf. U.14788. | |
| 14514 | 31-16-681 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Animal & human figure. | |
| 14878 | 31-16-680 | (none) | (none) | Jar sealings. With rough scratchings. (complete). | |
| 13954 | 31-16-679 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Arabesque. | |
| 14733 | 31-16-678 | (none) | (none) | Jar-sealing, mark of linen beneath. | |
| 13607A | 31-16-677 | (none) | (none) | Jar-sealing. [A-B] Two large fragments. Original diam. part. c. 013 Inscription: (me)s (?)-an-ni-p(ad)-da Lugal Kiski dam nu-gig. Left of inscriptions: naked man holding lion by tail, lion facing another man. Right of inscriptions: Lion attacks caprid; fine gilgamis figure holding caprid; himself attacked by lion. Below inscription: square design of four little naked men (note hair or headdress) each attacking one in front? with dagger (of different sorts.) Hc. 1929/30-4. | |
| 15045 | 31-16-676 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Geometrical and rosette stamp. | |
| 13912 | 31-16-675 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Rosette, altars and vessels?? etc. | |
| 13972 | 31-16-674 | (none) | (none) | Seal impressions. Geometrical designs (and altars ??). | |
| 14643 | 31-16-673 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Dancing man? | |
| 14163 | 31-16-672 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Deer, star, branch (tree), and man. | |
| 14825B | 31-16-671 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. 2 pieces. Probalby belonging together. Stars, stylized reptile, etc. and rosette stamp. | |
| 14123B | 31-16-670 | (none) | (none) | Seal impressions. Elaborate geometrical design. Also another [B] more fragmentary example. | |
| 14527 | 31-16-669 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Geometrical. | |
| 14571 | 31-16-668 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Line of men, in hand & pots. | |
| 13688 | 31-16-667 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Man with radiate hair and animals. | |
| 14192 | 31-16-666 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Leaf design? | |
| 14196 | 31-16-665 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Naked man with staff(?) over shoulder, animals. | |
| 14589B | 31-16-664 | (none) | (none) | [A-C] Seal impressions. 3 pieces containing the leaf pattern. | |
| 14641 | 31-16-662 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Linear design (vegetational?) | |
| 14194 | 31-16-661 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Large impression of antlers? etc. | |
| 14753 | 31-16-660 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Very primitive, human figure. | |
| 14685 | 31-16-659 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Trellis. cf. 14798, 14824. |