Context Title: Seal Impression Strata | SIS     
Context Name (Publication): Seal Impression Strata     
Context Description: This is a vertical distinction rather than a horizontal one. Located within the Area PG (the Royal Cemetery) these strata were noted sloping down and forming the material into which the graves were dug (mostly seen in the western portion of the cemetery area). They contained many early tablets and seal impressions, thus the name SIS (Seal Impression Strata). They appear to be evidence of many dumping episodes of administrative material probably thrown out from an important building such as an early shrine. There were eight separate strata noted, but not all could be traced over an extended area and there are conflations of several, such as SIS 4-5, where the exact stratum for an artifact could not be determined.     

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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)
18422X (none) (none) (none) Animal figurines. Crudely hand-modelled. 28 in all.
18422Y (none) (none) (none) Animal figurines. Crudely hand-modelled. 28 in all.
18422Z (none) (none) (none) Animal figurines. Crudely hand-modelled. 28 in all.
18422AA (none) (none) (none) Animal figurines. Crudely hand-modelled. 28 in all.
18422AB (none) (none) (none) Animal figurines. Crudely hand-modelled. 28 in all.
18423 33-35-57 (none) (none) Animals head in dark clay. Hand modelled. The eyes incised, mouth and nostrils carefully rendered: good work.
18417 33-35-17 (none) (none) Baked clay figurine. Crudely hand-modelled. Nude female, to the hips only: the breasts attached in snowman technique (one missing), the nose pinched to a beak, the hair attached by a clay ribbon, the arms wing-like.
18393 33-35-159 (none) (none) Clay ball flattened on one side. Incised on it, lines which may be merely decoration but may be script.
18390 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine hand modelled, crude, of an animal. On the flank, incised signs. [drawing of symbols] (B.) Pl.44 vol. IV
18416 33-35-16 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Crudely hand-modelled in dark clay. Made to the top of the hips only: in the flat base is a hole to attach the figure to a trunk of some other material. The head is very small and birdlike, the arms like wings (? Under a cloak?)
18391 33-35-56 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Hand modelled, crude, of an animal. On the right shoulder an incised sign. [drawing of sign] (P.) Pl.44 vol. IV
18419 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. Lower part of, crudely modelled in dark clay. Round the bottom vertically incised lines represent a fringe of the skirt. The arms are wing-like (broken): the head missing.
18415A (none) 1933,1013.224 (none) Clay figurines. Crudely hand-modelled in dark clay. Nude female figures, steatopygous, the heads very small, the arms thick and short. The lower part of the legs of B missing.
18415B (none) (none) (none) Clay figurines. Crudely hand-modelled in dark clay. Nude female figures, steatopygous, the heads very small, the arms thick and short. The lower part of the legs of B missing.
18420A (none) 1933,1013.226 (none) Clay figurines. Crudely hand-modelled. No heads, flat wing-like arms, flat bases.
18420B (none) (none) (none) Clay figurines. Crudely hand-modelled. No heads, flat wing-like arms, flat bases.
18420C (none) 1933,1013.225 (none) Clay figurines. Crudely hand-modelled. No heads, flat wing-like arms, flat bases.
18420D (none) (none) (none) Clay figurines. Crudely hand-modelled. No heads, flat wing-like arms, flat bases.
18420E 33-35-19 (none) (none) Clay figurines. Crudely hand-modelled. No heads, flat wing-like arms, flat bases.
13838 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment (jar sealing?) With two incised signs: Ur -? (cf. 13914) HC.2001. (Perhaps SIS3 (Not SIS4))
13967 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment with impression of?
14719 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment. A few signs (v. archaic) HC.2S32
18403 33-35-331 (none) (none) Clay jar sealing, fragment of. Bearing a very clear impression of the cloth which was wrapped round it.
18405 33-35-344 (none) (none) Clay jar sealing, fragment of. With elaborate design including human figures.
18412 33-35-389 (none) (none) Clay jar sealing. Fragment of. Scene of soldiers marching.

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