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
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:60 Page:127 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:60 Page:127 (none)
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Context

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