Description (Catalog Card): [A-H] Clay jar sealing. Fragments of impressed with finely drawn linear design which contains possible hieroglyphic elements.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG Pit W SIS IV-V     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
U Number: 18397A     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 11: 1932-1933      
Description (Modern): UE 3 p. 40 no. 429 'Pictographic inscription in two registers. The upper may tentatively be read: mes-ud-en-lil utul(?): the shepherd; and the second beginning with the star and club: ruler of Ur, Adab, Larsa, and Kesh. U. 18397. Pit W. SIS 4-5. Pl. 54.' Matthews (1993) p. 61 no. 1 'U18397. UM 33.35.293. UE 3:429. SIS4. H 3.2, L 3.5. Two rollings. Complete impression surviving. Symbols arranged in two registers, each with horizontal borders. Upper register: U4, EN KID (Nippur), ?edinnu. Lower register: AN DUG3+DU3 (Kesh), UR2+AN (?), URI3+AB (Ur), U4+NUN (Adab), U4 AB (Larsa). Sealing 6.8 x 5.2 x 4.9. Reverse faces broken, but with striations on base perhaps from wood. Functional type: ?package/box.' UPenn db: 'UE III: pictographic inscription in two registers. the upper may tentatively be read: mes-ud-en-lil utul (?): the shepherd; and the second beginning with the star and club: ruler of Ur, Adab, Larsa, and Kesh.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 33-35-293     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Provisional Field Photo Album Provisional Field Photo Album (none) (none) (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:191 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:191 (none)
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)
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