14489 | 31-17-16 - UrOnline

Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Impressed
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Female
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Position >> Seated
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Position >> Hand Raised
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Child
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Body Parts >> Head >> Bird headed human
Iconography:	Furniture >> Stool ¹
Iconography:	Geometric Decoration ²
Iconography:	Vessel ³

Description (Catalog Card):	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite.⁴
Find Context (Catalog Card):	PFT. D6 -9m [Also lists +8m, meaning unclear]
Material (Catalog Card):	Steatite⁶
Measurement (Catalog Card):	L. 23mm, D. 26mm,

U Number:	14489
Object Type:	Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals
Museum:	University of Pennsylvania Museum
Season Number:	08: 1929-1930
Description (Modern):	Cylinder Seal, seated woman, pots, hut, spider
Description (Modern):	field number on object looks like U.14487 but the correct number is U.14489 CBS Register: Seal cylinder. diorite. oldest seal found in deep level. seated woman. pot, hut, spider, etc. worked with bore. UE X: two women in profile are squatting, one on a high couch provided with bull's leg feet, the othe ron a low divan flat on the ground. The first holds in her extended hands a round jar with handles; the second a spool of wool. More jars and spools surround the solid loom (?) behind them. This is built of uprights and a cross-bar surmounted by a star (?). A spider spinning its spiral thread, a goat bounding over its pen, complete the symbolic picture. Dark steattite cylinder. This seal was found in a well-authenticated setting, along with a bowl of glazed frit turquoise blue and the steatite carving in the round of a wild boar of the Jamdat-Nasr period.⁵
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Igneous >> Diorite
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number):	31-17-16
Measurement (Diameter):	26
Measurement (X):	24