Lion

This category includes mammals, usually portrayed as verylarge and muscular in the torso, with large muscular legs, a mane placed on the neck, a long tail, large ears, the muzzle is long and the teeth are large.  It is usually shown snarling, with its mouth open and teeth exposed.  

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Object	U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
	9298	(none)	(none)	B17012	Cylinder seal Green stone Gilgamesh and Eabani
	9634	(none)	(none)	B16935	Cylinder Seal Dark steatite 2 heroes fighting lions
	9652	(none)	(none)	B16857	Cylinder seal Dark steatite A hero fighting a bull (or wild oryx)? and a lion and a bull fighting.
	9661	(none)	(none)	B16874	Cylinder seal Marble Mottled Slightly concave Inscribed: - 2 lions rampant, crossed: behind each an attacking hero - beyond are two retainers. Upper register: inscription, lower register: rampant gazelle and hero. Inscription /......mu; Lugal-gis; My (?).... Lugal-gis. (HC. 207)
	(none)	(none)	(none)	B15273	Unknown
	(none)	(none)	(none)	B16879	Unknown
	11825	30-12-1	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis Lazuli. Gazelle attacked by bull, & gazelle attacked by 2 bulls. Inscription: Su-sikil(?) DINGER-SES-AB lugal-ni Kalam-dug-dam. We expect dam-Kalam-dug and perhaps this is possible. ni is written between lines 2 &3, and dam between lines 3 & 4, but both at the end (right). Provisional translation: -Pure Hand (=Handmaid ?) of Nannar (new ideogram.) her King. Kalam-dug-dam (or Dam-Kalam-dug =Wife of the good land).
	12034	30-12-11	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Shell. Decayed. Fighting beasts (lions?).
	11448	30-12-22	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark grey steatite. 2 winged animals, heraldically crossed.
	11492	30-12-25	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green stone. Scene: 3 men & 2 lions fighting: one of the men has 4 bulls legs.
	11483	30-12-27	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green stone. Scene: 2 men fighting 2 animals.
	11961	30-12-28	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Green stone. 2 Heroes fighting a lion & a bull.
	11418	30-12-29	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green Jasper. Two men fighting 2 lions, the latter heraldically crossed, and an inscription in 2 lines. Inscription: UrdGIS-BIL-ga-mes dub-sar sumu Urd KA-DI = Ur-Gilgames scribe, son of Ur-KA-DI. HC.1928/9-2.
	11896	30-12-31	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Pale green calcite. (1 side decayed) human-headed bulls & heroes fighting.
	(none)	30-12-32	(none)	(none)	[no catalog card from field]
	(none)	30-12-33	(none)	(none)	[no catalog card from field]
	12705D	30-12-348	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Beads. Small lapis tubes carnelian rings and bugles. [B] (2) Copper reticule containing manicure tools. [C] (3) Copper dagger with ivory and silver handle. Type II B. Tip missing. [D] (4) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli adhering to blade of 3, not photographed. Men and animals poor cutting. [E] (5) Spindles copper with lapis whorl.
	11598A	30-12-35	(none)	(none)	Group. [A](1) Cylinder Seal, lapis, man, lion & gazelle]. [B](2) Copper Axe Type XVII. [C](3) A few beads of lapis and copper.
	12690	30-12-47	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Blue-green. Winged dragon, rampant lion. Star.
	11443	30-12-49	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell, much decayed. Inscription apparently: Sagdudu. HC..5.
	11490B	30-12-50	(none)	(none)	Copper Pin & cylinder seal. Copper pin plain, tang head (tang) broken), to which was attached a small white shell cylinder seal with design of a palm tree on one side of which 2 rampant lions, on the other apparently a winged bull (?) the surface very much decayed.
	11491B	30-12-502	(none)	(none)	[no description, object identified in publication]
	(none)	30-12-52	(none)	(none)	[no catalog card from field]
	(none)	30-12-55	(none)	(none)	[no catalog card from field]
	(none)	30-12-56	(none)	(none)	[no catalog card from field]

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