cylinder seal
- Museum number
- 137948
- Description
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Aragonite (shell) cylinder seal; presentation scene?; two figures approaching a third, probably female, who stands with both hands clasped, facing left. All but the feet of the first are missing, the upper part of the second who raises one hand and part of the head of the third. All figures wear robes with double borders. Terminal, a blank inscription panel; the upper part and one side are broken.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 1.10 centimetres
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Height: 2 centimetres (max)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Incomplete; the upper part and one side are broken.
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Acquisition notes
- This collection number is applied to Woolley Ur objects previously unregistered but their provenance is assumed by their place of storage and there have been may possibilites for confusion that can not be entirely relied on unless the object has a U number or other positive evidence.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 137948
- Registration number
- 1935,0113.467