Title: Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders     
Date: 1951     
Author: Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard     
Publisher: Oxford University Press     
Publication place: Oxford     

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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)
1410 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hematite. Introduction to a god seated facing right. Inscription in 2 lines obliterated.
1411 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black marble (?) Eagle with outspread wings clutching the backs of 2 rampant ibexes which turn their heads backward. Between the heads of the 2 creatures is a palm-tree or symbol. No inscription.
1413 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal, broken. With device of the owner being led forward, facing left, to the presence of a deity who stands with left leg raised (upon a mountain?) and holds a spear in left hand. Traces only of inscription.
1414 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black stone. Introduction to a god seated right with crescent moon before him. Space for inscription blank.
1415 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black stone. 2 human figures slaying a lion which leaps between them, facing right. No inscription.
14167 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Brought in with SIS 4 jar-sealings, but looks later :presentation scene (?) bulla(?)
1417 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black stone. 2 human figures slaying a lion, which leaps between them facing right.
1420 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Terracotta. 2 human figures slaying a lion, rampant, facing right, between them. Illegible remains of a 2 line inscription.
1421 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Terracotta. Rough incised designs of a palmette, and leaves and branches.
1423 (none) (none) B15596 Stamp seal. Square button in terracotta with rude incised device of a bird standing among plants. [drawing]
1437 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Light grey stone. 2 registers: upper, 3 seated figures, female, with plant in jar between 2 of them; lower register, scene with ibex(?)
14489 31-17-16 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite.
14495 31-17-18 (none) (none) Cylinder seal of white shell. The decoration consists simply of drill-point holes irregularly spaced over the whole surface.
1462 (none) (none) (none) Relief fragment. Clay. Top with part of a human figure holding uncertain object in outstretched hand.
15042 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Presentation. Crescent. Inscription: dumu Ur gis ginar dam-kar N. son of Ur-ginar, merchant. HC.102.
15043 31-17-19 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis lazuli. Presentation. Star in crescent. Inscription dNin-gal-nam-nin-kho-ul dumu lu-dingir-ra N. son of L. scribe. HC.103.
1509 (none) (none) (none) Plumb-bob. Black stone, with hole at end and 3 at side, and remains of copper wire within. Like U.1502. In text, see U.1359
15154 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene. God, presenting deity and presented person, standing. 3 emblems on staffs. Ostrich & crane & scorpion.
1544 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing deity (Marduk) and seated deity with altar between and tree at back.
1545 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black stone. With figures faintly distinguishable.
15450 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hematite. 3 standing figures. God wearing conical horned headdress, upturned curl in nape of the neck; long coat open at the side, one leg raised and resting on a mountain top(?) approached by hero wearing a close fitting cap, tunic extending only to the knees and a weapon at the belt. Third figure full face - ( the other two in profile) is a nude female wearing a wig. Attributes: crescent moon under sun.
15474 31-17-21 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 scorpions.
15475 (none) 1930,1213.524 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Spread eagle.
15478 31-17-20 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing god, worshipper & rampant lion.
15480 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed. Presentation scene before seated deity. In front of the seated deity, sits a dog. (wrongly numbered on photo-print U.15580)