Sealing
33-35-273
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 33-35-273 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Ur |
| Archaeology Area | PG. Pit W. SIS 4-5 |
| Period | Early Dynastic I | Early Dynastic II |
| Date Made | 2900-2700 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Terracotta |
| Description | UE III: same clever composition or wind-rose made of two human heads and of two crouching bulls, apparently meaning "master of all the human beings" - the salmat qaqqadi - "and all the cattle of the plain." the pictographs around are bull, lion, and goat's head and a curious lion-headed bird devoring a spare limb. Clay sealing. Baked and shellacked post-excavation. Jar stopper fragment with roughly incised decoration. |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1933 |
| Other Number | U.18394 - Field No SF | UE III: 394 - Other Number | 847 - Other Number | P338235 - CDLI Number | UM 33-35-273 - Other Number |
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