17251 | 31-43-43 - UrOnline

Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Impressed
Iconography:	Geometric Decoration >> Crescent
Iconography:	Type >> Ritual
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Worshipper
Iconography:	Mythical Figure >> Deity
Iconography:	Clothing >> Nude
Iconography:	Clothing >> Dress >> Flounced Dress
Iconography:	Clothing >> Dress >> Tufted Dress
Iconography:	Accessories >> Headwear >> Headdress/Crown >> Horned Headdress
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Body Parts >> Head
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Body Parts >> Head >> Hair
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Body Parts >> Head >> Bearded
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Male
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Position >> Hand Raised
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Position >> Hands Clasped Below Breasts
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Position >> Holding Other
Iconography:	Human/zoomorphic >> Position >> Standing
Iconography:	Geometric Decoration >> Disc ¹
Iconography:	Geometric Decoration
Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Inscribed

Description (Catalog Card):	Cylinder Seal [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] ²
Measurement (Catalog Card):	18mm by 9mm

Text Genre:	Administrative and Legal >> Loan
Dates Referenced:	Artaxerxes I(?) 16

U Number:	17251
Museum:	University of Pennsylvania Museum
Object Type:	Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals
Season Number:	09: 1930-1931
Object Type:	Writing and Record Keeping >> Tablet
Culture/Period:	Achaemenid Empire (Persian)
Description (Modern):	Worshipping a standing god. Star and crescent. Amorite libator. (Ma-ni-anum dumu Basa-ilu, arad dEnki) UE X: a worshipper in turban and fringed robe stands before his god distinguished by his horned mitre and long hair doubled up and the club he holds in hisclasped hands, but draped like the worshipper in a fringed robe. There is a sun-disk above him, and at the back an Amorite libator in turban and short loin-cloth holds a cone and bucket. Seal of Si-li-bu-um, mar Puzur-ilu, warad E-a. Haematite cylinder.³
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Hematite
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number):	31-43-43
Tablet ID Number:	P414788
Measurement (X):	18
Measurement (X):	18
Measurement (Y):	9
Measurement (Y):	9

[1] on crescent

[2] Typed Transcription from BMCard

[3] Modern description

Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	Unknown	Woolley did not list a location.	(none)

Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
Field Photographs	Field Photographs	(none)	(none)	(none)
Ur Excavations Texts IV: Business Documents of the Neo-Babylonian Period	Ur Excavations Texts IV: Business Documents of the Neo-Babylonian Period	1949	Figulla, H. H.	(none)
Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders	Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders	1951	Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard	(none)

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