7923 - UrOnline

Technique:	Decoration >> Subtraction >> Incised

Description (Catalog Card):	Cylinder seal. Marble. Brownish, and black. Slightly concave. Gilgamesh fighting rampant lion. Behind the lion a gazelle which follows Enkidu who fights a rampant bull. Behind the rampant bull a star over a crescent moon. c. 2700BC.¹
Find Context (Catalog Card):	from PG 23 TTE with clay vase types
Material (Catalog Card):	Marble²
Measurement (Catalog Card):	ht 0037 d 0026

U Number:	7923
Object Type:	Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals
Museum:	The National Museum of Iraq
Season Number:	05: 1926-1927
Description (Modern):	Cylinder seal
Material:	Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Marble
Museum Number (IM Number):	IM 3626

[1] Woolley's description

[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	PG/23	(none)	(none)

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Media	Media Title	Title	Label	Author	Omeka Label
	Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery	Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery	1934	Woolley, Leonard	(none)
	British Museum Photo Negatives	British Museum Photo Negatives	(none)	(none)	(none)
	Provisional Field Photo Album	Provisional Field Photo Album	(none)	(none)	(none)
	Woolley's Catalog Cards	Woolley's Catalog Cards	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:157	Card -- BM ID:194 Box:36 Page:157	(none)

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Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> TTE >> Private Graves 1-100 >> PG/23

References

Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

British Museum Photo Negatives, .

Provisional Field Photo Album, .

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