Sealing

33-35-352

From: Iraq | Ur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 33-35-352
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Ur
Archaeology Area PG. Pit W. SIS 4-5
Section Near Eastern
Materials Terracotta
Description

UE III: bull passant, lion rampant, jumping goats, stylized hills, branches, and star flower. The curved club, the UB sign, and the checker-board, form perhaps a pictographic inscription. Crescents pointing alternately right and left, up and down, fill the nine cases of the board. Has besides a scratched design, no. 234. Clay sealing. Baked and shellacked post-excavation. Fragment impressed with design of a procession of animals.

Credit Line British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1933
Other Number U.18406 - Field No SF | UE III: 239 - Other Number | 747 - Other Number

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