Stamp Seal
Amulet (uncertain)
33-35-164
From: Iraq | Ur | Diqdiqqeh
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 33-35-164 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iraq | Ur | Diqdiqqeh |
| Archaeology Area | Diqdiqqeh |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Steatite |
| Technique | Engraved |
| Iconography | Animal |
| Description | grey color . body of couchant animal, hind quarters complete but front leg only sketched. fairly high relief. stone rounded off at shoulder so that there never was a head, back is flat and bears two engraved signs. UE IV: stamp seal, zoomorphic, of grey steatite; the seal is in the form of a couchant animal carved in fairly high relief; the hind quarters are complete, the fore quarters only lightly sketched, and there is no head; the rounding off of the stone at the shoulders shows that there was never a head. on the under side are two signs crudely engraved. |
| Length | 2.8 cm |
| Width | 1.7 cm |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1933 |
| Other Number | U.18341 - Field No SF |
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