Serpent/Snake

This category includes reptiles, usually portrayed as limbless scaled reptiles with a long tapering body. 

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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)
	16190	31-43-8	(none)	(none)	Amulet. Shell. Flattened double conoid. Engraved with design of snaked(?)
	3195	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze snake.
	1112	(none)	(none)	B15711	Clay chair. Fragment. grey-drab clay. P. [drawing 1:1]
	8290	(none)	(none)	B16863	Cylinder seal. Shell. Pinkish. Slightly blackened by fire. Two registers. Subject indistinct. Above: A spread eagle. Below: A kneeling? man, and a snake? occupying the full length of the seal 2 winged dragons, crossed, and a rampant bull.
	6698	(none)	(none)	B16298	Cylinder seal. Inscribed. Grey steatite. Introduction of worshipper by goddess to Nannar: smaller figure behind throne of Nannar holding big club. Below and behind throne small figure pulling dragon by the wing; similar figure attacks dragon in front. Attributes: crescent moon resting on post. Balance and pot. Squat monkey (close to knees of Nannar). Inscribed: Ilu-Shamash, Ilu-Aa 1st Babylonian Dynasty. E.
	2674	(none)	1927,1003.60	(none)	Door-socket of Sin-balatsu-iqbi (time of Ashurbanapal) shakkanak (vice regent) of Ur son of Ningal-iddinna. Restoration of Elemen-ni-gur. In particular of the gate-way to Esag-dili (the Ziggurat). The gate was built in the middle of the terrace of the temenos, on the procession way (! e hal-la-ta du-a). The door was of boxwood, fixed with bronze pegs in massive walls, had a gold USH, a silverlock, silver plated bronze binding (?). See notes. H.C.
	999	(none)	(none)	B15199	Mace head. Limestone frit, 3 fragments of originally glazed; pieces fit together and make of original, decorated with four entwined snakes. Photo wanted [drawing]
	6771B	(none)	(none)	B16275A	PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. 4 snakes. Neo-Babylonian.
	6771D	(none)	(none)	B16275B	PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. 4 snakes. Neo-Babylonian.
	6771C	(none)	1927,0527.222	(none)	PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. 4 snakes. Neo-Babylonian.
	6771A	(none)	1927,0527.223	(none)	PAP-SU-GAL. Mud figures. 4 snakes. Neo-Babylonian.
	10479	(none)	1928,1010.159	(none)	Plaster Cast Of a hole in the ground above the box in PG 800: the hole was vertical and showed traces of wood: the upper part had been cut away and only the lower part was cast. It seems to have been a wooden wand which was carved to represent a snake coiled around the staff.
	14825B	31-16-671	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. 2 pieces. Probalby belonging together. Stars, stylized reptile, etc. and rosette stamp.
	13681	31-16-621	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. men, animals (?) and caduceus(?) PR 1404
	12545	31-16-648	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Serpant.
	6066	(none)	(none)	B16292	Seal. Black steatite. Triangular shape scorpion and? Lizard? About BC 2600. E.
	14067	31-16-779	(none)	(none)	Snakes head. Terracotta fragment: body missing. [drawing 1:1]
	17123	31-43-576	(none)	(none)	Terracotta box. Oval. With its sides decorated with applied figures of snakes and a rudimentary human figure (broken but complete)
	15712	31-16-776	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Bearded deity, tall and slim, peg-shaped below waist, naturalistic above. Wearing long coat covering one arm and leaving the other exposed. On either side two long snakes. Heads level with head of figure.
	16495A	31-43-415	(none)	(none)	Terracotta relief. Seated female figure with flounced skirt, nursing a child. On either side snakes. [drawing] (A) Complete, fair impression. (B) Complete, similar but from a slightly smaller mould.
	12092	(none)	(none)	(none)	Terracotta snake. In high relief on broken potsherd. Vase itself was probably a large full bellied bowl. Tail of snake missing. Incised circles on snakes body represented spots on skin.

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