12795A | 30-12-18
| Technique: | Decoration >> Subtraction >> Impressed |
| Iconography: | Type >> Animal Scene |
| Iconography: | Animal/Zoomorphic >> Mammal >> Antelope/Deer |
| Description (Catalog Card): | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Squat furniture type. Poor cutting. Stags? In procession and signs of doubtful import.1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | From rubbish in filling of Giguna PD. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Steatite3 |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Jadeite3 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | L. 29mm, D. 21mm |
| U Number: | 12795A |
| Object Type: | Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Season Number: | 07: 1928-1929 |
| Description (Modern): | CBS Register. U.12795. Cylinder Seal. Jadeite. Antelopes passant. herds. UE Vol. X: U.12795a. antelopes grazing. each body has two heads, one bent, one erect, meaning a pair of animals, and explaining the sign for two placed above their backs. Jadeite cylinder.2 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Jadeite |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite |
| Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): | 30-12-18 |
| Measurement (X): | 23 |
| Measurement (Y): | 20 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Modern description |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Nanna Courtyard | PD | The meaning of this two-letter designation is unclear. It may derive from Woolley's search for Shulgi's palace and may thus stand for Palace of Dungi. Woolley came to realize, however, that it was an enormous courtyard surrounded by rooms, and at times in the excavation it was simply referred to as the Ziggurat Courtyard. The path through the court led to the ziggurat terrace and eventually to the temple atop it. The court was likely a gathering place for special occasions of worship to the moon god (whose name Woolley read Nannar, but which we read today as Nanna). Therefore, Woolley eventually dubbed this space the Great Nannar Courtyard. Area PD is the large space to the east of the ziggurat terrace, substantially lower in elevation than the base of the ziggurat. It had many floors over many periods. It consisted of a large paved courtyard (some 50 x 75 meters) surrounded by rooms that may have been used for storage. Because of indentations in some of the wall faces, Woolley believed there was once an inset wooden colonnade along some of the walls. | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:54 Page:183 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:54 Page:183 | (none) | |
| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:54 Page:184 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:54 Page:184 | (none) | |
 | Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders | Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders | 1951 | Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| Field Photographs | Field Photographs | (none) | (none) | (none) |
- 4 Media