Description (Catalog Card): Cylinder seal. Shell. With rings of steatite inset at the two ends. Heroes fighting animals. (somewhat decayed). 1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PJ, B 66     
Material (Catalog Card): Shell2     
Material (Catalog Card): Steatite2     
Material (Catalog Card): Lime2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): L. 44mm D. 29mm     
U Number: 19191     
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 12: 1933-1934      
Description (Modern): limestone with steatite core, roundels. Hunter, hero and animals rampant. UE X: a leopard and a lion rampant attack a bearded bison and an antlered deer. A nude hunter grips the leopard by the tail and stabs it in the neck. His head in profile is of archaic bird-like type, pointed nose, round eye, wild locks, and no beard. There is a scorpion in the field below. Shell cylinder with rings of steatite inset in the ends but decayed.     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Mortars, Grouts, and Plasters >> Lime Mortar and Plaster      
Material: Organic Remains >> Shell      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 35-1-1     
Measurement (X): 44     
Measurement (X): 44     
Measurement (Y): 29     
Measurement (Y): 32     
[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)
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:75 Page:142 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:75 Page:142 (none)
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