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

Locations: 13972 | 31-16-674 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
SIS 4 (none) (none)
  • 1 Location

Media: 13972 | 31-16-674 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:143 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:57 Page:143 (none)
  • 4 Media

Share

Email | Edit

Context

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.

[title missing], .

Collections

Clay Seals and Sealings