Sealing
31-16-657
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Ur
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 31-16-657 |
| Current Location | Middle East Galleries - On Display |
| Provenience | Iraq | Ur |
| Archaeology Area | SIS 4, Under PG 1332 (S.E. end) C.-10m |
| Date Made | 2900-2700 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Terracotta |
| Iconography | Gateway | Nude Woman |
| Description | CBS Register: fragment of clay jar stopper with seal impressions. Gate, Nude Woman. Copulation! UE III: scene of worship. a woman stands with extended hands between the two buckled posts at the gate of a shrine. The recessed door is richly decorated with straight lines, zigzags, and a frieze of dentils. The crescent, star, leg, and goat about the woman are a kind of pictographic inscription. A line of dots divides the lower from an upper register, where a marital scene, a star, perhaps an animal passant and a spread eagle are still visible. Stone cylinder-seal bored through and hung on a string. |
| Credit Line | British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1931 |
| Other Number | U.14625 - Field No SF | UE III: 385 - Other Number | B19065 - Old Museum Number | P270317 - CDLI Number |
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