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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)
16211 31-43-1 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Pink limestone. In the form of a recumbent calf; on the flat back a rough design of 2 animals done with drill-holes and engraved lines. This is an early Sumerian piece which is found ina Persian period grave, and must have been an antiquity. [drawing 1:1]
16546 31-43-36 (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal. Ur-gar(?). HC.30/II, 2.
16547 31-43-51 (none) (none) Limestone cylinder seal Nin-es(?)-ba-na, Son of ... H.C. 30/II, 3.
16612 31-43-53 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Presentation scene. 3 standing deities. Crescent moon and Palm.
16623 31-43-64 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Greenish grey steatite. Unfinished. Unpierced. 2 standing figures. Crude cutting.
16749 31-43-19 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. 2 crescents on poles and an X. Rough work.
16927G 31-43-7 (none) (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
17014 31-43-65 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Miniature. Gilgamesh and Eabani fighting rampant lion.
17015 31-43-52 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 figures before a standing goddess. Goose
17028 31-43-69 (none) (none) Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Oval. Upper side convex and umbilical antelope (?) and a bird on its back [drawing 1:1]
17100 31-43-67 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Black. Conoid. Bearded male figure holding an offering before a throne (?) or altar with a high back in which is planted a spear. Emblems. Fish and crescent moon. [drawing]
17251 31-43-43 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17315 31-43-45 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hematite. Black. Cut down. Three standing figures, an animal, crescent moon. Two wedge like signs.
17321 31-43-61 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Marble (?). Brown. Sides convex. God standing behind a crescent on a pole and a second deity introducing the votary advances toward the pole. Dwarf like figure. Animal.
17334 31-43-41 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Fragment. Enkidu and Eabani fighting rampant lion.
17340 31-43-11 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1]
17344 31-43-30 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Dark grey. Small portion missing. Presentation scene. Two standing figures before a seated god. Crescent moon.
17355 31-43-71 (none) (none) Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA?
17678 32-40-324 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679.
17726 32-40-330 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. 2 men fighting a lion.
17797 32-40-345 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Shell. One side flattened and rough representation of animal drilled and scratched on. [drawing 1:1]
17806C (none) (none) (none) Groups: From one burial. (A) Gold fillet, of narrow thin ribbon, twisted. (B) [B.1-.2] A pair of gold earrings, each consisting of two complete earrings intertwined, of the small hollow lunate type: in each case, one earring is fatter than the other: D.'s 15mm and 13mm respectively. One hoop is broken. (C) Cylinder seal, lapis lazuli, standing, human figures roughly cut. (D) Gold finger ring, hollow tube pressed in along the periphery thus [drawing]. (E) Beads: gold and carnelian, lapis and silver diamonds: gold and carnelian barrels and double conoids; mixed types, large lentoids, bugles, balls and double conoids of carnelian, agate, lapis. For order see field notes.
17811D 32-40-325 (none) (none) Group. From one burial. (A) [A, E-I] Six gold earrings, small hollow lunate type, worn in sets of 3 in each earrings, small hollow lunate type, worn in sets of 3 in each ear. (B) Gold finger ring, thin metal with edges bent inwards to form a ribbed hoop. [drawing] (C) Beads: lapis diamonds, gold double conoids, silver disks, carnelian and steatite lentoids. (D) Cylinder seal, shell: hunter and lion and 2 columns of inscription.
17835A 32-40-308 (none) (none) [A-B] Two lion's heads. Silhouetted in profile. White calcite, originally painted red, but the color gone: both are really stamp seals with rough designs drill-cut on the flat lower surface. Both are pierced for suspension from the top of the head to the bottom of the mane. [drawing]
17871 32-40-326 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Badly chipped. Presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and 3 columns of inscription.

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