Administrative Cylinder seal excavated in Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar), dated to the Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC) period and now kept in British Museum, London, UK
Museum Collection(s)
British Museum, London, UKMuseum Number
BM 120572Provenience
Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar)Language(s)
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-Seal
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| Language(s) |
| Period |
Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC) Pre-Classical Sargonic
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| Dates Referenced | Sargon.00.00.00 |
| Accounting Period |
This artifact is a physical seal. See below of a list of its impression(s):
| Impression | Provenience | Period | Date |
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| CDLI number | P217331 |
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| LOD URI | https://cdli.network/entity/P217331 |
physical
| Artifact type |
Cylinder seal physical
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| Dimensions | |
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| Material(s) | Metamorphic rock > Lapis lazuli |
| Preservation | |
| Seal Number | S001436 |
| Provenience |
Ur (mod. Tell Muqayyar) Excavated by Sir Leonard Woolley; Acquired by the British Museum in 1928.
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| Written In | |
| Archive | |
| Excavation Number | U 08988 |
| Findspot | |
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| Elevation |
| Collection(s) |
British Museum, London, UK |
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| Museum Number | BM 120572 |
| Accession Number | 1928-10-09, 0055 |
| External Resource | Identifiers |
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| Ur Online Project (UrOnline) | 40517 |
| British Museum Collection (BM) | W_1928-1009-55 |
primary: RIME 2, .01.01.2003, ex. 01a (1993)
history: WAS 2, 064
history: UET 1, 271
history: UE 2, no. 308
citation: Fs Owen p.143-158, p. 152-156
| Created | Creator | Type | Authors | Project | Reviewer | Status | Action |
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| 2026-07-18 at 14:11:25 | Cross, Aidan | Artifact metadata | Cross, Aidan | Pagé-Perron, Émilie | Approved |
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| 2026-03-08 at 08:53:02 | Pagé-Perron, Émilie | Artifact metadata | Pagé-Perron, Émilie; Rattenborg, Rune | Pagé-Perron, Émilie | Approved |
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| 2024-02-29 at 19:30:47 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2023-07-26 at 18:31:04 | Firth, Richard | Artifact metadata | Firth, Richard | Firth, Richard | Approved |
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| 2023-06-28 at 23:15:35 | Rattenborg, Rune | Artifact metadata | Hafford, William B.; Rattenborg, Rune | Geomapping Landscapes of Writing | Rattenborg, Rune | Approved |
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| 2016-10-10 at 09:16:58 | Englund, Robert K. | Transliteration | Englund, Robert K. | CDLI, CDLI | Approved |
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| 2016-07-28 at 16:34:13 | CDLI, CDLI | Transliteration | CDLI, CDLI | CDLI, CDLI | Approved |
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| 2013-10-31 at 10:51:30 | Englund, Robert K. | Transliteration | Englund, Robert K. | CDLI, CDLI | Approved |
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| 2013-09-03 at 16:44:42 | Englund, Robert K. | Transliteration | Englund, Robert K. | CDLI, CDLI | Approved |
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| 2012-11-16 at 12:05:31 | Brumfield, Sara | Transliteration | Brumfield, Sara | CDLI, CDLI | Approved |
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| 2012-06-06 at 14:42:59 | Foxvog, Daniel A. | Transliteration | Foxvog, Daniel A. | CDLI, CDLI | Approved |
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| 2003-02-26 at 00:00:00 | CDLI, CDLI | Artifact metadata | Basello, Gian Pietro; Foxvog, Daniel A.; Frayne, Douglas R.; Gelb, Ignace Jay; Johnson, J. Cale | CDLI, CDLI | Approved |
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@misc{2026CDLI,
note = {[Online; accessed 2026-10-14]},
year = {2026},
month = {jul 20},
title = {CDLI {Seals} 001436 (physical) artifact entry},
url = {https://cdli.earth/P217331},
howpublished = {https://cdli.earth/P217331},
}
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