14752 | 31-16-643

Description (Catalog Card): Seal impression. House or temple with 5 posts and pointed roof (gateway).2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS 8, Pit Z at 12.1 m = SIS8     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
U Number: 14752     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): UE 3 p. 17 no. 9 'Construction, panelled door, conical top, leaf or jar, framed in vertical lines. This is perhaps a fragment of a pictographic inscription. U. 14752. Pit Z. SIS 8. (P. CBS. 31.16.643.)' Matthews (1993) p. 69 no. 65 'U14752. UM 31.16.643. UE 3:9. Pit Z at 12.1 m = SIS8. H >3.2, L >4.1. Two rollings. Unclear motifs perhaps in boxes. Sealing 5.8 x 4.7 x 3.2. Reverse has split-reed matting impressions. Functional type: reed matting package.' UPenn db: 'Seal Impressions; Geometrical Pattern (house with pointed roof and gateway) UE III: construction, panelled door, conical top, leaf or jar, framed in vertical lines. This is perhaps a fragment of a pictographic inscription CBS Register: fragment of clay jar stopper with seal impressions. geometrical pattern.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 31-16-643     
[1] linear
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
SIS 8 (none) (none)
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Media: 14752 | 31-16-643 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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:60 Page:127 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:60 Page:127 (none)
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Publication Context: Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Seal Impression Strata | SIS >> SIS 8

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