Description (Catalog Card): Seal impression. Rosette, altars and vessels?? etc.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS 4     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
U Number: 13912     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): UE 3 p. 39 no. 424: 'Pictographic inscription. Four abodes are represented by the unu sign with a spouted jar between each of them. The emblems on the top, star, eagle, &c., are too indistinct to allow a proper attribution to Ur, Uruk, or Larsa. The two posts with cross-bars between four stars are somewhat different from the usual pictograph of Adab, and may have a general meaning. Eight-pointed star on the butt-end of the cylinder. U. 13912. SIS 4. Pl. 54. (P. CBS. 31.16.675.) U. 14892. SIS 4.' Matthews (1993) p. 62 no. 4: 'U13912. UM 31.16.675. UE 3:424. UET 2:336. SIS4. H >2.8, L 7.8. Four rollings and one stamp impression. Symbols alternating with ??ller motifs: AB, ?+AB, ?+AB, ?, URI3 UNUG (Ur), AB, ?snake+ UNUG. Sealing 6.7 x 5.3 x 2.4. Smooth peg impression, di. 2.3. Two rows of string impressions. Sd di. 0.3. sg di. 0.5, TP 1.1, SSD: Z. Level base. Functional type: door peg.' Matthews (1993) p. 63 no. 4a: 'Di. 2.1, circ. 6.6. Coarse eight-pointed rosette.' UPenn db: 'UE III: pictographic inscription. Four abodes are represented by the unu sign with a spouted jar between each of them. The emblems on the top, star, eagle, &c, are two indistinct to allow a proper attribution to Ur, Uruk, or Larsa. The two posts with cross-bars between four stars are somewhat different from the usual pictograph of Adab, and may have a general meaning. Eight-pointed star on the butt-end of the cylinder. CBS Register: fragment of clay jar stopper with seal impressions. traces of strings inside. pictographs, star'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 31-16-675     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Media: 13912 | 31-16-675 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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)
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:57 Page:96 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:57 Page:96 (none)
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