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cylinder seal
Object Type
cylinder seal
Museum number
122548
Description
Pale pinkish brown limestone cylinder seal; banqueting scenes; above register - attendant beside pair of seated figures drinking from large vessel; below register - person standing by table; two attendants carry load pot slung from pole between them; worn.
Cultures/periods
Early Dynastic III
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Sir Leonard Woolley
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Ur (historic - city)
Materials
limestone
Dimensions
Diameter:
15 millimetres
Height:
33 millimetres
Bibliographic references
Wiseman 1962a / Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum: Cylinder Seals I: Uruk - Early Dynastic Periods
(p.29, pl.26a)
Woolley et al 1934a / The Royal Cemetery
(p.119, no.60, p.578 or 587, pl.194, 123)
(cf:)
Location
Not on display
Condition
Fair / poor; worn.
Subjects
feast/banquet
vessel
attendant
Acquisition name
Division of Finds:
Department of Antiquities of Iraq
Acquisition date
1929
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
122548
Registration number
1929,1017.360
Additional IDs
Excavation/small finds number:
U.12387
(? excavation number (according to catalogue))
Excavation/small finds number:
U.13499
(? excavation number (according to record card and register))