 | 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. |
 | 16547 | 31-43-51 | (none) | (none) | Limestone cylinder seal
Nin-es(?)-ba-na,
Son of ...
H.C. 30/II, 3. |
 | 17355 | 31-43-71 | (none) | (none) | Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA? |
| 7027 | (none) | (none) | B16301 | Seal.
White steatite.
Round. Hole perforated horizontally through hemispherical sides. Flat on one side, hemispherical on the other. Hemispherical side has 3 grooves 0002 wide in all bisecting it and concentric circles decoration, 4 in all, 2 on either side of the bisecting line. On flat side in middle enthroned Nannar both hands supporting a post with a crescent moon which is also supported by a bull-man. Behind the throne a similar bull-man also supporting a crescent moon on a post, and below the throne a bull with high horns, crescent shaped.
Bull-men (Eabani) are ithyphallic. Hair on legs of Eabani.
E.
Before 3000 BC. |
 | 7916 | (none) | (none) | B16906 | Stamp flat seal. One side convex. Calcite. Greyish. Above a reclining beast, possibly a jackal? and below a second beast with big head. |
| 18284 | 33-35-170 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal.
Facetted conical: chalcedony.
Persian type.
Two standing figures worshipping before an altar: crescent above. |
 | 13722 | 31-17-24 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Translucent white quartzite(?) oval, flat below & rounded above: on the flat base, traces of an animal design mostly done with a drill-point, in dots joined up by rough engraving; the design really unrecognisable now. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18337 | 33-35-169 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, with convex tip, pierced horizontally. Subject: 2 animals, a third animal and an unrecognizable object: engraved mostly with the circular drill. |
 | 17340 | 31-43-11 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1] |
 | 16117 | 31-43-66 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Mauve chalcedony(?) Concial-suspended by copper wire. Roughly engraved with figure of a man. [drawing] |
 | 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] |
| 17797 | 32-40-345 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Shell.
One side flattened and rough representation of animal drilled and scratched on.
[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] |
| 19974 | 35-1-18 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. [drawing 1:1] |
 | 16021 | 31-43-25, 31-43-25 | (none) | (none) | Steatite Cylinder seal. Nana son of Gudea,the jeweller. HC.30/I.7. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
 | 16546 | 31-43-36 | (none) | (none) | Steatite cylinder seal. Ur-gar(?). HC.30/II, 2. |
 | 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] |
| 18111B | 32-40-332 | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. Carnelian rings: amethyst double conoids, agate date-shaped and flat oval; blue paste date shaped; agate cylindrical; oval domical agate, large shell cylinder with roughly engraved winged gryphon? And minute carnelian balls, also [B] cylinder seal, glazed frit; a scorpion and a winged gryphon. Also fragments of a [C] copper fibula, bow type. |
 | 12004A | 30-12-36 | (none) | (none) | [A] Cylinder Seal Black Steatite with this a
[B] copper pin, plain tang head. Type II. |