7583
Description (Catalog Card): | Cylinder seal. Fragment. Marble, White Scene of worship. Heavily draped god seated on throne without a back holding in outstretched left hand a bird? Above double crescent moon? & between seated god and advancing figure a second bird? Second advancing fig. clean shaven, & heavily draped in long flairing skirt, behind him a goose? and behind the goose a goddess? in a flounced kaunakes skirt, both arms upraised? Behind the throne of the seated god Gilgamesh? with tail.1 |
Find Context (Catalog Card): | Found in loose soil beneath Larsa floor of House 2. Quiet Street close to childs G.50, EM |
Material (Catalog Card): | Marble2 |
Measurement (Catalog Card): | D. 0014 L? |
U Number: | 7583 |
Object Type: | Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals |
Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
Season Number: | 05: 1926-1927 |
Description (Modern): | Cylinder seal. white diorite. broken. worshipping a seated god. U.7583 UE VII: (U.7583) Cylinder seal, white marble. UE X: (U.7583) "standard" scene: the seated god, the worshipper with clasped hands, the assistant, and a nude Amorite servant (?). And the crescent, sun-disk, the ampulla, and libra emblems. Broken white steatite cylinder. |
Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Marble |
Museum Number (UPM B-number): | B16903 |
Notes: | B16903 had been associated with U.7503, but In a letter to Legrain dated Nov 28, 1935, Woolley says that cylinder seal U.7503 is in Baghdad. He asks whether the U number is misread on Penn's seal and should be U.7583, which is indeed the case. |
[1] Woolley's description |
[2] Material as described by Woolley |
Files
Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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Room 11 | House II | Chapel | (none) |
- 1 Location
Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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Leon Legrain Note Card | Leon Legrain Note Card | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders | Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders | 1951 | Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard | (none) | |
Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | Ur Excavations VII; The Old Babylonian Period | 1976 | Woolley, L. and M. Mallowan | (none) | |
Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:35 Page:87 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:35 Page:87 | (none) |
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Context
Excavation Context: Ur >> EM Site | EM >> Quiet Street | EM >> No. 2 Quiet Street >> Room 11 | House II