13972 | 31-16-674

Description (Catalog Card): Seal impressions. Geometrical designs (and altars ??).2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS 4     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
U Number: 13972     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 65 no. 23: 'U13972. UM 31.16.674. UE 3:404. SIS4. H >4.3, L >6.5. > three rollings and one stamp impression. Freely arranged symbols: ?E2 AN (?Nippur), ?URI3 ?(?Ur), U4UB ?, ? Sealing 5.7 x 5.4 x 2.7. Smooth peg, di. 5.0. Faint string impressions including knot. Functional type: door peg.' Matthews (1993) p. 65 no. 23a: 'U13972. Di. 1.8. Four points of eight or nine-pointed rosette with border.' UE 3 p. 38 no. 404 'Pictographic inscription. Sign of the cross divided into four quarters round a central circle. UB sign surrounded by fishes (?) or leaves, rising sun. The abode with the double side buckle. A second abode sign-AB-between squatting monkeys (?). A large panelled gate with side buckles between two stars, a pictograph which cannot mean Babylon     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 31-16-674     
[1] linear
[2] Woolley's description
[3] 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)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:57 Page:143 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:57 Page:143 (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