Description (Catalog Card): [A-AH] Seal impressions on mud jar sealings. All accidentally burnt and all fragmentary.     
Find Context (Catalog Card): SIS 4, SIS4-5     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay2     
U Number: 20083R1     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 12: 1933-1934      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 63 no. 12 'U14618a, BM 1930.12.13.399. U20083 (x 26); for museum numbers see list below. UE 3:454. SIS4-5. Complete impression surviving. H 4.3. L 9.1. Relatively freely arranged symbols: ?DU3, U4 UNUG (Larsa), dinnu, pots, ?URI3+AB (Ur), unusual form of leg cross, UB. U20083. UM 35.1.690. Sealing 9.5 x 6.5 x 5.4. Three rollings. Smooth peg, di. 2.5. Several rows of string, sd di. 0.4, sg di. 0.6, TF 1.2, SSD: Z. Level base with plaster impressions. Functional type: door Peg.' UE 3 p. 41 no. 454 'The edinnu motive and the swastika formed of four bull legs. Fishes swim between wavy lines in the edinnu. The swastika is surrounded by pictographs distributed in the four quarters: the abode of the quiver, a second abode between jars of two types, the UB sign between jars, the rising sun and an uncertain sign. U. 14618. SIS 4. U. 20083 (27 fragments). H. 36 mm. Pl. 56.' UPenn db: 'UE III: the edinnu motive and the swastika formed of four bull legs. Fishes swim between wavy lines in the edinnu. The swastika is surrounded by pictographs distributed in the four quarters: the abode of the quiver, a second abode between jars of two types, the UB sign between jars, the rising sun and an uncertain sign. 27 fragments.'     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 35-1-690     
[1] U number subdivided based on number of objects listed on Catalog Card. U number divided because object is divided in museum.
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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)
Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions Ur Excavations III: Archaic Seal-Impressions 1936 Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:76 Page:324 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:76 Page:324 (none)
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