Animal/Zoomorphic

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
17014	31-43-65	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Miniature. Gilgamesh and Eabani fighting rampant lion.
17334	31-43-41	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Fragment. Enkidu and Eabani fighting rampant lion.
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.
12691	30-12-46	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Poor cutting. Eagle in flight, antelopes? Bulls.
12034	30-12-11	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Shell. Decayed. Fighting beasts (lions?).
16180	31-43-3	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Two rows of deeply incised circles.
11896	30-12-31	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Pale green calcite. (1 side decayed) human-headed bulls & heroes fighting.
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.
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
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.
1706	(none)	(none)	B15594	Cylinder seal. Light brown stone. With traces of archaic design of fishes.
11757	30-12-13	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Sides slightly convex. 2 registers: gazelles rough linear drawing.
11828	30-12-5	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above, banquet; below, 2 gazelles. (rough & early work).
11895	30-12-15	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 ibex walking.
6133	(none)	(none)	B16294	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Upper and lower band showing gazelles passing sacred tree. About 3000 BC. E.
12654	30-12-12	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two registers. Bird headed men - rampant animals.
12720	30-12-17	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Rampant animals crossed. Poor cutting.
11825	30-12-1	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis Lazuli. Gazelle attacked by bull, & gazelle attacked by 2 bulls. Inscription: Su-sikil(?) DINGER-SES-AB lugal-ni Kalam-dug-dam. We expect dam-Kalam-dug and perhaps this is possible. ni is written between lines 2 &3, and dam between lines 3 & 4, but both at the end (right). Provisional translation: -Pure Hand (=Handmaid ?) of Nannar (new ideogram.) her King. Kalam-dug-dam (or Dam-Kalam-dug =Wife of the good land).
11112	(none)	(none)	B16880	Cylinder Seal. Lapis lazuli. Bird headed men fighting bearded bulls and gazelles. One hero wears a four pronged comb at back of head.
12041	30-12-16	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis Lazuli. 2 registers: Animals. Poorly cut. Stags galloping.
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.
6698	(none)	(none)	B16298	Cylinder seal. Inscribed. Grey steatite. Introduction of worshipper by goddess to Nannar: smaller figure behind throne of Nannar holding big club. Below and behind throne small figure pulling dragon by the wing; similar figure attacks dragon in front. Attributes: crescent moon resting on post. Balance and pot. Squat monkey (close to knees of Nannar). Inscribed: Ilu-Shamash, Ilu-Aa 1st Babylonian Dynasty. E.
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).
17315	31-43-45	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Hematite. Black. Cut down. Three standing figures, an animal, crescent moon. Two wedge like signs.
1733	(none)	(none)	B15589	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Very scratchily engraved on one side only with design of 2 men fighting a lion. P. [drawing]