Object Number | 33-35-292 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
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: alternate horns dividing the field into cases in which are single pictographs: crescents, legs, flowers (?), leaves. The horns connected with a rectangular blade resemble the pictorgraphic signs ur, the razor, and kin, a planting tool. There is a four-petalled rosette on the butt-end of the cylinder, d. 20 mm. Three fragments. Clay sealing. Baked and shellacked post-excavation. Fragment impressed with finely drawn linear design which contains possible hieroglyphic. |
Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1933 |
Other Number | U.18397c - Field No SF | UE III: 395 - Other Number | 918 - Other Number | P338204 - CDLI Number | UM 33-35-292 - Other Number |
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