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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)
6134 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Upper band, nine men, below animals and sacred tree. Bulls. Lion. Eagle. About BC 3000, B
6133 (none) (none) B16294 Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Upper and lower band showing gazelles passing sacred tree. About 3000 BC. E.
613 (none) (none) (none) Clay vase. Drab clay, wheelmade, with four wheelmade lines incised around the shoulder. [crossed out] Type XII [inserted] wrong.
6111 (none) (none) (none) Clay pig. Drab. Hollow inside. Half of body missing. Incised lines on body. B. [drawing 1:1]
611 (none) (none) B15198 Clay figurine of a bear. Forepart only. Reddish clay with creamy drab surface. [drawing]
6105 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Minor god introducing votary carrying gazelle as gift to major god who holds a wand in his left hand. Inscription: dNin-suh sukkal-zid-anna gispa-azag su-du. To Nin-Suh. the pure messenger of heaven carrying the bright scepter. B
6104 (none) (none) B16367 Phallic bead. Drab pebble. E. [drawing 1:1]
6097 (none) 1927,0527.136 (none) Minute bead in shape of man's head. E. [drawing 1:1]
6095 (none) 1927,0527.246 (none) Clay pig? Baked. Drab. E.
6087 (none) (none) (none) Donkey? Drab clay. [drawing 1:1]
608 (none) (none) (none) Clay figurine. Lower part only of flat wide-hipped Astarte figure. [below] Photo 69. [drawing 1:2]
6065 (none) (none) B16300 Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 3 grooves in middle divider scene, seated god and introduction of votary from 4 swans on lower half. About BC 2700. E.
6039 (none) (none) (none) Clay bowl. Light drab. Face decorated with thick black with shaped painted strips. Fragmentary. Part of rim missing. Not to scale [reference to drawing] Type 274 = 1L.35 [drawing]
6034 (none) (none) B16645 Clay vase. Drab. Mouth painted black. Vertical markings about 20mm in length run down from the neck, also painted blac. Type CXXII =RC.185 =1L.91b
603 (none) 1923,1110.113 (none) Terracotta relief. Fragment of head of bearded god wearing horned crown: behind, rough, with a hole for affixing it to a background. [drawing 1:1]
6020 (none) 1927,0527.201 (none) Stamp seal, flattened hemispherical -obverse convex- top with decorative workings - 3 parallel lines running across centre and 4 concentric circles in corners. White steatite. Two Sumerian - man & wife bring as an offering a goat (?) and a vase of milk. diam. 0022 width 0004 About BC 3500. photograph 554 E.
6002 (none) (none) B16287 Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Below, figure Gilgamesh? prostrate above, offering to Ea, heraldic animals, etc. c. BC 2300. ? Brick. VII
6001 (none) (none) (none) Rectangular label. Black steatite. Inscribed with text in 6 vertical columns on side, 8 on other. Pierced vertices. Dated Shilgi year 36 (=48). Basket of tablets: barley issued from the wood-store; cash from the income office, barley balance presented to the farmer; sesame seed; thread; dates brought in and balance of interest. There are 11 clay tablets, 1 total of gifts. The 13th month after the building of Duramati. H.C. In text: 9h3 [drawing 1:1]
573 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of jar sealing with a single seal impressed 3 times.
55 (none) 1923,1110.191 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Broken in half and chipped down one side. Scene: 3 figures in a row advancing l[eft]. Found with beads round neck of body in larnax burial.
54 (none) 1923,1110.190 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Engraved with scene of worshipper being introduced to a god standing in front of a gate.
539 (none) (none) (none) Tablet, fragment of. With seal impression. See U.537.Drawn by Newton, photo 64.
53 (none) 1923,1110.170 (none) Gold mouth piece. Formed of thin gold plate cut to shape as below: [references drawing] The ends of the band pierced for stringing. [drawing]
52 (none) 1923,1110.168 (none) Gold coil ring. The ends flattened and leaf shaped. [drawing 1:1]
518 (none) (none) B15184 Terracotta relief - Complete: greenish pottery. 2 male fig. advancing front. Each has tall feather(?) head-dress, long hair curled over ears, Semitic nose, long beard arranged in 3 rows of short curls and +long straight hair to a point: the right arm by the side, l. across body with in hand the litnus: drapery to knees, crossing legs diagonally. Behind, two legs to make the relief stand upright.

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