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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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: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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