Seal Impression Strata | SIS

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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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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
18424	(none)	1933,1013.231	(none)	Clay owl's head. Baked clay. Hand-modelled with spike below for attachment.
18420A	(none)	1933,1013.226	(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.
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.
14704	(none)	1930,1213.671	(none)	Seal impression. Cylinder sealings with design, suggestive of signs (unidentified) rosette. Incised lines or marks. HC.227.
14726	(none)	1930,1213.670	(none)	Tablet. Circular. Sign TIL(?) repeated about 15 times. HC.2S40
13877	(none)	1930,1213.662	(none)	Tablet. Fragment. Accounts. (sheep) HC.1406 (UET/II:9 supp)
14548	(none)	1930,1213.661	(none)	Tablet. Small fragment with 2 designs. (SIS 4 type?) HC.284.
15013	(none)	1930,1213.660	(none)	Tablet. Fragment. A few signs. HC.2S47.
15009	(none)	1930,1213.659	(none)	Tablet. Small piece of round tablet. HC.2S33.
14532	(none)	1930,1213.653	(none)	Tablet. Small fragment. HC.1602
14712	(none)	1930,1213.652	(none)	Tablet. Fragment SIS 4 accounts. HC.2S26.
14135	(none)	1930,1213.651	(none)	Tablet. Fragment of accaounts. SIS 4 type. HC.2S.10; UET/II:245.
20081AG	(none)	1930,1213.649	(none)	Tablets and fragments of tablets. All of archaic type.
15012	(none)	1930,1213.644	(none)	Tablet. Fragment. Accounts. HC. 2S35.
14839	(none)	1930,1213.643	(none)	Tablet. Fragment. Accounts? (SIS 4?) HC.2S28.
20081K	(none)	1930,1213.642	(none)	Tablets and fragments of tablets. All of archaic type.
20081AE	(none)	1930,1213.633	(none)	Tablets and fragments of tablets. All of archaic type.
20081X	(none)	1930,1213.626	(none)	Tablets and fragments of tablets. All of archaic type.
14109	(none)	1930,1213.624	(none)	Seal impression. Traces of a few signs, of which UD is pictographic UET II: 321)
14729	(none)	1930,1213.623	(none)	Tablet. Fragment. HC.2S45.
15005	(none)	1930,1213.610	(none)	Tablet. Accounts. HC.2S50.
14724	(none)	1930,1213.604	(none)	Tablet. Fragment SIS 4 accounts. HC.2S39
14507	(none)	1930,1213.599	(none)	Tablet. Fragment of accounts. HC.2821.
14723	(none)	1930,1213.591	(none)	Tablet. SIS 4 accounts. HC.2S38.