13902

Description (Catalog Card): Seal impression. Geometrical designs. see 130911     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS 4     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
U Number: 13902     
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 67 no. 38 'U13902. BM. Moorey 568. SIS4. H >3.0, L >5.2. One rolling and one stamp impression. Symbols: edinnu. Sealing 5.4 x 6.0 x 3.7. Reverse largely broken, with hint of string. Functional type: ?' Matthews (1993) p. 67 no. 38a 'U13902. Di. 2.7, circ. 8.5. Four points of a probably six or seven-pointed rosette. Note that the stamp has been pressed deeply enough into the clay to leave the impression of part of the cylinder design on the side, thus reinforcing the idea that the stamp designs were carved on the butt ends of cylinder seal' Moorey (1979) p. 110 no. 568 '568 : Irregular lump of unusually light buff clay bearing part of a linear design on one side with a rosette. U. 13902: SIS 4.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:57 Page:88 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:57 Page:88 (none)
Unpublished Early Dynastic sealings from Ur in the British Museum. Unpublished Early Dynastic sealings from Ur in the British Museum. 1979 Moorey, P. R. S. (none)
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)
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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.

Moorey, P. R. S. (1979) Unpublished Early Dynastic sealings from Ur in the British Museum. , .

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