14157 | 1930,1213.451

Description (Catalog Card): Seal impression. Design: perhaps altars & vessels.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS 4     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
U Number: 14157     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 64 no. 17 'U14157. BM 1930.12.13.451. UE 3:423. SIS4. H >3.7, L >3.7. Two rollings. Symbols in two registers. Upper: ?tree, ?edinnu. Lower: ?UNUG, ?AN pot, UNUG (Uruk), ?URI3+UNUG (?Ur). Sealing 4.0 x 6.6 x 1.9. Traces of peg and string impression on reverse. Functional type: door peg.' Merlin: 'Description Fragment of a clay sealing impressed with two registers of uncertain pattern perhaps arachiac signs on convex exterior surface; white deposit; abraded. Dimensions Length: 2.5 inches Width: 1.5 inches' UE 3 p. 39 no. 423: 'Pictographic inscription in two registers. The abode of the spread eagle (Lagash?). A jar and a star, perhaps Kesh. A large unu sign may represent Uruk; and the same sign but adorned with side buckles and a shaft on the top is perhaps the city of Ur. U. 14157. SIS 4. Pl. 54.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1930,1213.451     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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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)
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:58 Page:77 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:58 Page:77 (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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