18413D | 33-35-427
| 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: | 18413D |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Object Type: | Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Seal Impression |
| Season Number: | 11: 1932-1933 |
| Description (Modern): | Matthews (1993) p. 71 no. 96 'U18413. UM 33.35.427. UE 3:393. PG, A-D line. H >4.2, L >4.3. Two rollings and one stamp impression. Symbols: interlocking human ?gures and motifs. Sealing 5.8 x 4.4 x 2.3. Reverse has impression of rim, neck and shoulder of vessel, neck di. 25.0, and leather creases encircled by string, sd di. 0.3, sg di. 0.6, TP 0.9, SSD: Z. Functional type: pot with covering.' Matthews (1993) p. 71 no. 96a 'U18413. Di. 2.8, circ. 8.8. Eight-pointed rosette' UE 3 p. 37 no. 393 'The human Swastika. Two men back to back, one right way up, one head downwards, crossed by a second group of men in the same position, all nude and shaven. They are apparently running, each man catching one foot of his neighbour. The clever, well-balanced design forms a graphic wind-rose, which has a close duplicate in the four crossed lions on the seal of a-gig-?u-ddim, or in the chain of four runners armed with daggers on the seal of Mes-anni-padda, No. 5I8. The pictographic inscription is an exact parallel of the historical inscription: king of the four corners of the world, lugal an-ub-da tab-tab-ba. More pictographs surround the rose, lion, ass, and goat's heads, bull's legs, oval and triangular objects. An eight-petalled rosette on the butt-end of the cylinder, d. 25 mm. U. 18413. SIS 4-5. Two fragments. Pl. 52.' |
| 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): | 33-35-427 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Modern description |
| [3] Material as described by Woolley |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | SIS 4-5 | (none) | (none) |
- 1 Location
| 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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Publication Context: Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> Seal Impression Strata | SIS >> SIS 4-5