Sealing
31-16-602
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 31-16-602 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Ur |
| Archaeology Area | SIS 4, under A, at -9.80 |
| Period | Early Dynastic I | Early Dynastic II |
| Date Made | 2900-2700 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Terracotta |
| Description | CBS Register: fragment of clay jar stopper with seal impressions. traces of strings inside. geometrical pattern. UE III: see Notes for more. A remarkable ideographic inscription made of pictorgraphs with an abstact meaning in three main groups, and individual pictographs of various cities. The first group of composite pictures is again a wind-rose made of two human heads and two bull's heads.... |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1931 |
| Other Number | U.14586 - Field No SF | UE III: 398 - Other Number | B19010 - Old Museum Number | P338144 - CDLI Number |
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