Seal Impression Strata | SIS
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. |
Files
Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | 13830 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. animals. |
![]() | 13831 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. animals. |
![]() | 13832 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. animals. |
![]() | 13833 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. animals. |
![]() | 13834 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. animals. |
![]() | 13836 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Fragment (about Agade period?) HC.306. |
![]() | 13837 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Fragment (Ur III ?) |
![]() | 13838 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay fragment (jar sealing?) With two incised signs: Ur -? (cf. 13914) HC.2001. (Perhaps SIS3 (Not SIS4)) |
![]() | 13839 | (none) | (none) | (none) | seal impressions. animals. |
![]() | 13840 | (none) | (none) | (none) | seal impressions. animals. |
![]() | 13841 | (none) | (none) | (none) | seal impressions. animals. |
![]() | 13842 | (none) | (none) | (none) | seal impressions. animals. |
![]() | 13843 | (none) | (none) | (none) | seal impressions. animals. |
![]() | 13845 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Animals seated on mountains playing harp?? And another smaller fragment from same seal. cf. 13855. |
![]() | 13847 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal Impression. Fragment 13802, 13813 |
![]() | 13848 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Accounts archaic. HC.1404. 9UET/II:10 supp) [Additional notes on back of catalog card]. |
![]() | 13851 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Im-gig, etc. |
![]() | 13852 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Semitic letter (fragment) Larsa? not copied (HC.704). |
![]() | 13854 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. = 13815, 13863, 13865, adding part of inscription (cf. 13865) engur-bara-? lu-PI HC.209 UET II: 31 supp). |
![]() | 13855 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. =13845. |
![]() | 13856 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Animals. |
![]() | 13857 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Small fragment. [handwritten catalog card unreadable] |
![]() | 13858 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Caprid. |
![]() | 13859 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Fragment of cult scene? |
![]() | 13860 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Dog (?) and (?) |
Sibling Locations
Burnt Burial - Larsa Graves - PG/B - Pit A - Pit B - Pit C - Pit D - Pit E - Pit G - Pit H - Pit W - Pit Z - PJ - Private Graves 1001-1100 - Private Graves 1101-1200 - Private Graves 1201-1300 - Private Graves 1301-1400 - Private Graves 1401-1500 - Private Graves 1501-1600 - Private Graves 1601-1700 - Private Graves 1701-1800 - Private Graves 1801-1850 - Private Graves 501-600 - Private Graves 601-700 - Private Graves 701-800 - Private Graves 801-900 - Private Graves 901-1000 - Private Graves Area | PGA - Royal Cemetery | PG1931 - Royal Cemetery | PG1932 - TTA - TTD - TTE - TTF - TTG