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)
155 (none) 1923,1110.183 (none) Beads, string of found loose in soil together and re-strung. Large yellow paste and light carnelian, 13 in all.
13028 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Carnelian beads. Rings and 1 lentoid.
17394 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Glass paste. 14 puzuzu heads. 9 scaraboids. Some with quasi hieroglyphs and criss cross pattern. Rings, balls, disks, barrels with small globulear beads on the body, green, blue, yellow and horizontal. 1 tet pillar. 1 rock crystal scaraboid. 2 lapis lazuli double conoid, and lentoid. 1 hematite (?) scaraboid.
6160 (none) (none) B16286, B16286 Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Not fully paved. Lion attacked by two men 2 lines of defaced inscription. About BC 2100. Required for Vol. VII written.
1268 (none) (none) B15593, B15593 Cylinder seal in 2 registers: above, scene of "introduction" to a goddess. A woman is led forward by a female protecting deity. In lower register, 3 swans. Inscription: Ahat-ilti. Assat Lugal-usum-gal. (cf.U1267)
16601 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White frit. 2 geese and 1 snake.
2504 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Fragment. Brown limestone. Fragment. One worshipper - one standing figure - of a god: Between them the crescent [shown in drawing] on a short support. About BC 2300
7118 (none) (none) B16288 Cylinder seal. White shell. 2 registers. Upper register. Spend eagle between 2 gazelles - standing club. Below. Net. Before 3000 BC. E.
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.
1646 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Clay, with device of eagle, lance, etc.
1421 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Terracotta. Rough incised designs of a palmette, and leaves and branches.
6134 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Upper band, nine men, below animals and sacred tree. Bulls. Lion. Eagle. About BC 3000, B
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(?)
1054 (none) (none) B15276 Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Very small.
6499 (none) (none) B16297 Cylinder seal Pink marble or diorite Piece of copper wire mounting inside Four animals. Sheep or goats - two of which are crossed Two scorpions. L 002 diam 0015 About BC 3100. E.
7120 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Linear decoration. Before 3000
6131 (none) 1927,0527.188 (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Weatherworn.
6671 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Diorite? Black. Mottled. 3 lions rampant one upside down. B.
6853 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Unpierced. Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant lion. About 2600 BC. B.
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
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.
1417 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black stone. 2 human figures slaying a lion, which leaps between them facing right.
1415 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black stone. 2 human figures slaying a lion which leaps between them, facing right. No inscription.
1266 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal; two confronted human figures slaying lion which rears between them facing left. Inscription. Emuk(GIR)-i-li-sa(!) mar Urdnin-? PA KU(?) LU(?)
1168 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. With device of winged animal rampant between two supporting human figures. The animal faces right, and between left man and the animal a scorpion stands in the field. Inscribed: -Ba-da-da mar Ma-li.
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