13634 | 1930,1213.453

Description (Catalog Card): Seal impression. Geometrical design & rosette. 1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS 4     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
U Number: 13634     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 62 no. 3 'U13634, BM 1930.12.13.453. U13868, BM. U13975, BM. U14101, UM 31.16.415. U14102. BM 1930.12.13.460. UE 3:413, 415, 459 (all same seal impression). UET 2:332. All SIS4, where known. H 4.8, L >7.1. Symbols in two registers. Upper register: edinnu, ?filler motifs . Lower register, signs arranged in boxes: E2, ?, DU3 or NI ?NUN (?Adab), U4 AB (Larsa), ?BIR3 AB (?) U13634. Sealing 5.5 x 5.2 x 5.7. Two rollings, one stamp impression. Reverse distorted, but level base with mud plaster (?). impressions from wall surface. Functional type: door peg.' Matthews (1993) p. 62 no. 3a 'U13634. Di. 2.6, circ. 8.2. Eight-pointed rosette with single line border.' Merlin: 'Description Fragment of a clay sealing impressed with intricate geometric patterns and a rosette on concave surface; chipped; abraded; repaired crack. Dimensions Length: 2.5 inches Width: 2 inches'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1930,1213.453     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Cities, Seals, and Writing: Archaic Seal Impressions from Jemdet Nasr and Ur Cities, Seals, and Writing: Archaic Seal Impressions from Jemdet Nasr and Ur 1993 Matthews, R. J. (none)
Provisional Field Photo Album Provisional Field Photo Album (none) (none) (none)
Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions 1936 Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard (none)
Ur Excavations Texts II: Archaic Texts Ur Excavations Texts II: Archaic Texts 1935 Burrows, E. (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:56 Page:139 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:56 Page:139 (none)
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Publication Context: Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Seal Impression Strata | SIS >> SIS 4

References

Matthews, R. J. . (1993) Cities, Seals, and Writing: Archaic Seal Impressions from Jemdet Nasr and Ur, Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag.

Provisional Field Photo Album, .

Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard. (1936) Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Burrows, E. (1935) Ur Excavations Texts II: Archaic Texts, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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