13912 | 31-16-675
Technique: | Decoration >> Subtraction >> Impressed |
Technique: | Decoration >> Subtraction >> Inscribed |
Iconography: | Geometric Decoration >> Star |
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 |
Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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![]() | SIS 4 | (none) | (none) |
- 1 Location
Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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![]() | 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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Context
Publication Context: Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Seal Impression Strata | SIS >> SIS 4
References
Burrows, E. (1935) Ur Excavations Texts II: Archaic Texts, Oxford: Oxford University Press.