13933 | 31-16-645

Description (Catalog Card): Seal impressions. Geometrical, perhaps belonging together.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS 4     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
U Number: 13933     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 64 no. 15 'U13933. UM 31.16.645. UE 3:418. SIS4. H >3.1, L >4.7. two rollings. Single register of symbols: ?snake AB, U4 UNUG (Larsa), leg cross, edinnu. Sealing 5.5 x 7.2 x 2.8. Reverse face has no curve, but has string impressions, sd di. 0.3, sg di. 0.5, TP 1.2, SSD: Z. String is made of coarse vegetable matter, probably palm ?bre. Functional type: ?package.' UPenn db: 'CBS Register: fragment of clay jar stopper with seal impressions. linear inscription UE III: pictographic inscription. The edinnu, the cross divided into four quarters and surrounded by a star, a lozenge, a curved club, an arrow (?). The pictographs of Larsa and of hte city of the spread eagle.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 31-16-645     
[1] linear, short and long lines
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
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Media: 13933 | 31-16-645 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions 1936 Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard (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)
Provisional Field Photo Album Provisional Field Photo Album (none) (none) (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:57 Page:111 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:57 Page:111 (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.

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Clay Seals and Sealings