7020

Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Incised
Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Inscribed

Description (Catalog Card):	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed: Illegible. Gilgamesh and Enkidu attacking rampant lion; former grasps lion by tail from behind, the other stabs it with sword from in front. About BC 2100. text: E-Hursag(12). B.²
Find Context (Catalog Card):	From HT
Material (Catalog Card):	Steatite³
Measurement (Catalog Card):	L. 0018 d 0009

U Number:	7020¹
Object Type:	Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals
Museum:	The National Museum of Iraq
Season Number:	04: 1925-1926
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite
Museum Number (IM Number):	IM 1501

[1] U.7000-U.7032 were duplicated with the duplicates assigned to tablets from Season 4 found in areas KP, EH, and possibly HT (Jacobsen AJA 57:128). The duplicates have been given the subletter A in this database while the original object from the catalog card retains the number without subletter.

[2] Woolley's description

[3] Material as described by Woolley

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Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	Ehursag \| HT	The excavation area abbreviation HT stands for Hall's Temple because H.R. Hall had excavated parts of it in 1919. Hall called it Area (or Building) B and he found inscribed bricks in the paved floors of the building which indicated it was the ehursag, the house of the mountain, which was purported to be Shulgi's palace. Woolley, in his first season, found inscribed bricks in the walls that mentioned Ur-Namma's temple of the moon god, and he concluded the building was actually a temple, dubbing the excavation area HT. He believed the actual ehursag palace to be located somewhere else within the temenos. Many of his subsequent excavation abbreviations attest to his search for the building, but he eventually agreed that HT was the ehursag itself. In his fourth season, Woolley cleared the remaining extents of the building. He had already explored parts of the terrace wall on which it stood and came to find that this was part of the Ur III temenos wall. Along this wall near the ehursag Woolley found a deep well, at the bottom of which (13 meters down) were many inscribed clay cones.	(none)

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Media	Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
	Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period	Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period	1974	Woolley, Leonard	(none)
	Woolley's Catalog Cards	Woolley's Catalog Cards	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:34 Page:162	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:34 Page:162	(none)