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

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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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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