Sealing

31-16-603

Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries

From: Iraq | Ur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 31-16-603
Current Location Middle East Galleries - On Display
Provenience Iraq | Ur
Archaeology Area Under PG 1332 (SE end) m-9-10; according to UE III: Pit D, SIS 4
Section Near Eastern
Materials Terracotta
Description

CBS Register: fragment of clay jar stopper with seal impressions. copulatio a posteriori (?) traces of strings inside.

UE III: marital scene. A woman is bending over two pots which she apparently tries to lift from the ground. A second woman holds her heads down by her tresses while an ithyphallic male seizes the first woman from behind by the shoulders. Both women wear long hair and a woollen skirt. The male is nude. His elongated head has a striking animal profile. Beard and hair are uncertain. A child seated on a low stool behind him holds up a round object, cup or bread. There is a second marital couple above and many smaller figures in the field: a scorpion, a spouted jar, round pieces of bread, a crescent, and again the curious checker-board of nine squares inscribed in a circle, No. 291. Eight-petalled rosette on the butt-end of they cylinder, d. 20 mm.

Credit Line British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1931
Other Number U.14597 - Field No SF | UE III: 368 - Other Number | B19011 - Old Museum Number | P270263 - CDLI Number

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