Sealing

33-35-373

From: Iraq | Ur

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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Object Number 33-35-373
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iraq | Ur
Archaeology Area PG. Pit W. SIS 4-5
Section Near Eastern
Materials Terracotta
Description

note on object is in the same white ink as the UE III number and states "2 frags"

UE III: a lion attacks an antelope (?) and is speared from behind by a nude hunter who has caught him by the tail. Shrub, star flowers, jar, bird, separate ass's head. Six petalled rosette on the butt-end of the cylinder, d. 15 mm. Two fragments. Clay sealing. Baked and shellacked post-excavation. Fragment impressed with designs of fighting animals.

Credit Line British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1933
Other Number U.18407 - Field No SF | UE III: 254 - Other Number | 815 - Other Number

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