9851
Description (Catalog Card): | Cylinder seal Mottled marble Imperfectly bored- hole not in centre. Three standing deities saluting a seated deity. Seated deity holds a spear-like weapon in his uplifted right hand. All three approaching deities have a spear, standing upright in ground in front of them, point upwards. Behind throne a flower rising out of a pot. NB. The fact that spears are indicated standing upright in the ground is interesting in connection with material evidence from the graves several of which have an upright spear on one side of the body.1 |
Find Context (Catalog Card): | PG 709 |
Material (Catalog Card): | Marble2 |
Measurement (Catalog Card): | L 0031 d 0021 |
U Number: | 9851 |
Object Type: | Seals, Stamps, and Sealings >> Cylinder Seals |
Museum: | The National Museum of Iraq |
Season Number: | 06: 1927-1928 |
Description (Modern): | Cylinder seal (Lamia's list no.218) |
Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Marble |
Museum Number (IM Number): | IM 143188 |
[1] Woolley's description |
[2] Material as described by Woolley |
Files
Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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PG/709 | (none) | (none) |
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Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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UPM Field Photo numbers | UPM Field Photo numbers | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:122 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:43 Page:122 | (none) | |
Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery | 1934 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
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