Description (Catalog Card): Cylinder seal. Steatite. (Not pierced) Gimil- ^dNin-gis-si(d) , dumu ^dLugal-gu-ni-da.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): AH, Court of House [E struck through] 19, level II     
Material (Catalog Card): Diorite3     
Measurement (Catalog Card): 0027 x 0009     
U Number: 16599     
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 09: 1930-1931      
Description (Modern): Cylinder Seal, inscribed     
Description (Modern): Cylinder shaped. (Gimil llusguzid, Dumu Lugal gu (?) ni-da) UE X: Stone cylinder, not pierced, bears only a name. Probably a memorial tag buried with the dead. Gimil nin-gis-zi-da, dumu Lugal-tag (?). Steatite cylinder.2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Igneous >> Diorite      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 31-43-21     
Measurement (X): 28     
Measurement (Y): 10     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Modern description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

Locations: 16599 | 31-43-21 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
No. 1 Baker's Square To the Northwest of baker's square, 7 rooms, A door in the north corner of Baker's Square led into a long passage which was more like a private lane than a room in a house and had in its SW wall the front entrance to a separate building (not excavated). Facing this was the entrance to No. 1. The passage was unpaved and let into its floor was a brick enclosure like a manger. Of the walls, the SW was the deeper and apparently the older; the foundations of the NW wall lay at a much higher level, seven courses above those of the SW wall, but the two were bonded together above; the NW wall had been much destroyed by an intrusive bread-oven. (none)
Room 1 Central Court, What may then have been the front door of No. 1 opened directly into Room 1, the courtyard of the house; it was brick-paved with a central drain and the walls showed eleven courses of burnt brick with mud brick above. On a secondary floor level was found the cylinder seal U.16802; under the original pavement was the corbel-vaulted tomb LG/41 and an infant burial LG/42. Two rooms on the NW side of the court were not excavated by us as they lay under spoil-heaps whose removal would have entailed a cost out of proportion to any probable results, so only their doors were cleared. (none)
House XIX (none) (none)
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Media: 16599 | 31-43-21 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders 1951 Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:66 Page:25 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:66 Page:25 (none)
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