629 - UrOnline

Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Impressed
Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Inscribed
Iconography:	Mythical Figure >> Deity >> Goddess

Description (Catalog Card):	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Well engraved with standing figure of a suppliant l. facing a seated goddess(?) rt = the crescent moon between. Three columns of inscription. 3rd Dynasty style.¹
Find Context (Catalog Card):	Against face of Temenos wall, SW side
Material (Catalog Card):	Steatite²
Measurement (Catalog Card):	L. .0016

U Number:	629
Object Type:	Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals
Season Number:	01: 1922-1923
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite
Measurement (Height):	16³

[1] Woolley's description

[2] Material as described by Woolley

[3] Barrett. 1976. Near East Section, Ur, Inscribed Objects

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Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	TWSW	(none)	(none)

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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:23 Page:129	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:23 Page:129	(none)
	Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders	Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders	1951	Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard	(none)

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Context

Excavation Context: Ur >> Temenos Wall | TW >> TWSW

References

Legrain, Leon, and Woolley, Leonard. (1951) Ur Excavations X; Seal Cylinders, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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