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)
	(none)	30-12-57	(none)	(none)	Unknown
	(none)	30-12-56	(none)	(none)	[no catalog card from field]
	(none)	30-12-55	(none)	(none)	[no catalog card from field]
	(none)	30-12-52	(none)	(none)	[no catalog card from field]
	11491B	30-12-502	(none)	(none)	[no description, object identified in publication]
	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.
	11443	30-12-49	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell, much decayed. Inscription apparently: Sagdudu. HC..5.
	12690	30-12-47	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Blue-green. Winged dragon, rampant lion. Star.
	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.
	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.
	(none)	30-12-33	(none)	(none)	[no catalog card from field]
	(none)	30-12-32	(none)	(none)	[no catalog card from field]
	11896	30-12-31	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Pale green calcite. (1 side decayed) human-headed bulls & heroes fighting.
	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.
	11961	30-12-28	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Green stone. 2 Heroes fighting a lion & a bull.
	11483	30-12-27	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green stone. Scene: 2 men fighting 2 animals.
	11492	30-12-25	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green stone. Scene: 3 men & 2 lions fighting: one of the men has 4 bulls legs.
	11448	30-12-22	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark grey steatite. 2 winged animals, heraldically crossed.
	12034	30-12-11	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Shell. Decayed. Fighting beasts (lions?).
	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).
	234	(none)	(none)	B15272	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor.
	401	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Head of a lion seen full-face. [drawing 1:1]
	653	(none)	(none)	(none)	Amulet(?). Fragment. (lower part missing) of a seated lion(?) carved in brown pebble. [drawing]
	1227	(none)	(none)	B15648	Upper part of a large terracotta relief; a female-headed figure holds before its waist a kind of tray on which stand 2 small human (female)? Figures and 2 uncertain objects lie horizontally before them. Lower part of the relief missing. P. [drawing]
	1580	(none)	(none)	B15704	Clay Lion's head with traces of glaze. P. [drawing 1:1]

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