Description (Catalog Card): Clay jar sealings. Fragment of unclassified designs, mostly with men and animals.1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG Pit W SIS IV-V     
Material (Catalog Card): Clay3     
U Number: 18413C     
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Object Type: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression      
Season Number: 11: 1932-1933      
Description (Modern): Matthews (1993) p. 69 no. 69 'U18413. UM 33.35.423. UE 3:405. SIS4. H >2.0, L >3.0. Two rollings. Symbols: ? Sealing 3.9 x 3.6 x 2.2. Faint coarse ?bre string impressions on largely broken reverse. Functional type: ?' UE 3 p. 38 no. 405 'A fragment of pictographic inscription. A gate or loom. Various constructions with pointed or arched roof. U. 18413. Pit W. SIS4-5. Pl. 53.'     
Description (Modern): 42 fragments were accounted for as of Dec. 1989. [Note on typed transcript] This seal impression has been partially destroyed. There were 2 fragments and 1 was completely destroyed. This is according to a letter dated 5 May 1966 From R.R.B Kearton to R.H. Dyson, Jr. regarding damage due to storage under the auditorium in humid and inadequate conditions.2     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Clay >> Unfired      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 33-35-423     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Modern description
[3] Material as described by Woolley

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Media: 18413C | 33-35-423 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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:72 Page:206 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:72 Page:206 (none)
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