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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7607 | (none) | 1928,1009.30 | (none) | Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Two gazelles rampant heads turned backward to face rampant lion? with feathered neck viz [drawing] and beaked head. Between the gazelles a palm tree. Sargonid? |
| 7909 | (none) | 1928,1009.28 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Green. Enthroned god with high horned headdress and kaunakes skirt stretching out wand to bull supporting shrine on his back. On either side of shrine, wings outspread and behind shrine a worshipper carrying a curved staff in his outstretched hands. Hair done up in a knot above shoulders. Bull is probably a symbol of strength and thus supports the shrine, the worshipper is probably represented as about to enter and the god as seated within. [drawing] |
| 9282 | (none) | 1928,1009.27 | (none) | Cylinder seal Dark mottled steatite with copper caps. Introduction scene: seated god and 3 figures approaching him and carrying respectively a tall vase, a cup and box and a gazelle [three lines of undecipherable text erased] |
| 8342 | (none) | 1928,1009.26 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Mottled grey steatite. Subject: a seated god, with an attendant behind his chair and 3 personages upright in front of him: all wear the horned headdress, so it cannot be the presentation scene. Good, bold work. |
| 8721 | (none) | 1928,1009.24 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Highly polished. 2 rampant lions crossed and on either side a rampant gantelope. Between the antelopes a palm or corn [drawing] |
| 8699 | (none) | 1928,1009.17 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Brown mottled steatite. Winged god in a shrine and two minor gods apparently opening the shrine doors. |
| 7976 | (none) | 1928,1009.119 | (none) | Ball bead of black steatite. |
| 2508 | (none) | 1927,1003.64 | (none) | Spindle whorl. Black steatite. [drawing 1:1] |
| 3084 | (none) | 1927,1003.202 | (none) | Seal cylinder. Soapstone. About BC 2700. [drawing] |
| 2859 | (none) | 1927,1003.200 | (none) | Seal cylinder. Soapstone. About BC 2400 [drawing] |
| 2726 | (none) | 1927,1003.195 | (none) | Seal cylinder. Soapstone. About BC2100 [drawing] |
| 6123 | (none) | 1927,0527.64 | (none) | Weight. Reddish stone. Pyramid shaped. Hole at top for stringing. Type IV. |
| 6011 | (none) | 1927,0527.54 | (none) | Weight? Black diorite egg-shaped with sharply pointed end. Type I? [drawing 1:1] |
| 6007 | (none) | 1927,0527.43 | (none) | Duck weight grey steatite head and tail slightly chipped. Type VI. |
| 6056 | (none) | 1927,0527.40 | (none) | Fragment for incrustation. Black steatite. Part of Kaunakes skirt from human figure 5 and part of 6th row of flounces grooves behind for attachment. [drawing 1:1] |
| 6157 | (none) | 1927,0527.33 | (none) | Inscribed foundation tablet. Black steatite. Inscribed rectangular, uninscribed side convex. 8 Columns. Shrine of dDim-tab-ba. Cf. U.6300, U.6302. Text: Dim-tab-ba Temple (2) E. |
| 6935 | (none) | 1927,0527.207 | (none) | Seal. Black steatite. Cut on flat base. Pyramid shaped. Rough work. Chair? Scorpion above or animal? Before 3000BC. E. [drawing] |
| 6020 | (none) | 1927,0527.201 | (none) | Stamp seal, flattened hemispherical -obverse convex- top with decorative workings - 3 parallel lines running across centre and 4 concentric circles in corners. White steatite. Two Sumerian - man & wife bring as an offering a goat (?) and a vase of milk. diam. 0022 width 0004 About BC 3500. photograph 554 E. |
| 6506 | (none) | 1927,0527.200 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Lion between two fighting men. Sbout BC 2400. |
| 6876 | (none) | 1927,0527.199 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed. Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant lion. Inscription: Son of Ur-Ba? About 2300 BC. |
| 6865 | (none) | 1927,0527.198 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black. [steatite crossed out]. Two figures with unpierced arm standing on either side of sacred palm with dates rising out of water pot. About 2300 BC. |
| 6591 | (none) | 1927,0527.196 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Gray steatite. Inscribed. Lu-dingir-ra son of Lugal-dugga. Worshipper and standing god. About BC 2000. |
| 6595A | (none) | 1927,0527.193 | (none) | Cylinder seal. White pottery. Rampant bull and tree of life. Crescent. About BC 700. |
| 6538 | (none) | 1927,0527.192 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Rampant lion attacked by two hunters. |
| 6593 | (none) | 1927,0527.191 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Introducing a worshipper to a standing god. About BC 2200. |
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