Cylinder Seal
Object Number: | 31-17-16 |
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Current Location: |
Middle East Galleries Currently On Display |
Provenience: | Iraq Ur |
Archaeology Area: | PFT D6-900 |
Locus: | PFT. D 6 - 900 |
Section: | Near Eastern |
Materials: | Diorite |
Iconography: | Seated Woman Pot Hut Spider Woman |
Length: | 2.4 cm |
Width: | 2.5 cm |
Credit Line: | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1931 |
Other Number: | U.14489 - Field No SF UE X: 31 - Other Number B19422 - Old Museum Number |
Description
field number on object looks like U.14487 but the correct number is U.14489
CBS Register: Seal cylinder. diorite. oldest seal found in deep level. seated woman. pot, hut, spider, etc. worked with bore.
UE X: two women in profile are squatting, one on a high couch provided with bull's leg feet, the othe ron a low divan flat on the ground. The first holds in her extended hands a round jar with handles; the second a spool of wool. More jars and spools surround the solid loom (?) behind them. This is built of uprights and a cross-bar surmounted by a star (?). A spider spinning its spiral thread, a goat bounding over its pen, complete the symbolic picture. Dark steattite cylinder. This seal was found in a well-authenticated setting, along with a bowl of glazed frit turquoise blue and the steatite carving in the round of a wild boar of the Jamdat-Nasr period.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Tokens to Tablets: Glimpses into 6000 Years of the History of the Ancient Near East (14 Nov 1987 - Aug 2006) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Middle East Galleries (21 Apr 2018) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
[Article] Woolley, Charles L. 1930. "Excavations at Ur, 1929-30". The Museum Journal. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 21. no. 2. pg. 80-121 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 118, pl. XVIII, fig. 28 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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