Metamorphic
This category contains any rock type that has been subjected to different temperature and pressure conditions.
Objects: Metamorphic Export: JSON - XML - CSV Clay Seals and Sealings
Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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16162 | 31-43-32 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. One end chipped. Presentation scene. One seated & 2 standing figures. | |
6160 | (none) | (none) | B16286, B16286 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Not fully paved. Lion attacked by two men 2 lines of defaced inscription. About BC 2100. Required for Vol. VII written. | |
6261 | (none) | (none) | B16314 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Nannar, Minor god and votary. Inscription doubtful. About BC 2200. [drawing] | |
6899 | (none) | (none) | B16307 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed. Winged dragon, rampant, accosted by god, who wears high horned headdress. Behind Gilgamesh and slave? Shaven and shorn carrying a fly whisk? Attributes: crescent moon. Inscribed. Dun-ur kiki dNannar. About 2300 BC. | |
6122 | (none) | (none) | B16282 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Broken at one end, subject mostly obliterated. | |
6065 | (none) | (none) | B16300 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 3 grooves in middle divider scene, seated god and introduction of votary from 4 swans on lower half. About BC 2700. E. | |
11566 | 30-12-14 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers: above, 2 bulls & trees; below, 2 gazelles & trees. | |
7989 | (none) | (none) | B16864 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite with silver caps. Subject Gilgamesh and Eabana fighting bulls. (N.B.) part of the linen thread was preserved in the hole) | |
![]() | 17317 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Two standing figures and a winged dragon. |
685 | (none) | (none) | B15249 | Cylinder seal. Back steatite. Subject: a seated god approached by 2 supplicants: above, the sun: the composition is divided up by a roughly rendered rope(?) pattern which coils above the god and first supplicant and below the second.[drawing] | |
![]() | 18925 | 35-1-8 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Very dark steatite. Hero fighting heraldically crossed lions and bulls. |
13552 | 31-17-125 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Crude cutting. | |
![]() | 18948 | 35-1-13, 35-1-13 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Standing god with two worshippers; two columns of inscription. Inscription: Ilu-su(?)-ir, son of Dudu (C.J.G.) |
![]() | 19191 | 35-1-1 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. With rings of steatite inset at the two ends. Heroes fighting animals. (somewhat decayed). |
![]() | 18927 | 35-1-10 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity and 2 worshippers and goat. |
16677 | 31-43-24 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Grey marble? Presentation scene: 2 standing figures before a seated god. | |
16623 | 31-43-64 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Greenish grey steatite. Unfinished. Unpierced. 2 standing figures. Crude cutting. | |
18919 | 35-1-22, 35-1-22 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Green steatite (?) with copper caps. Two standing gods shaking hands: two men killing a kneeling prisoner: two columns of inscription supported by an animal. Good work. | |
![]() | 18870 | 35-1-12 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Seated goddess and two standing figures. |
![]() | 18946 | 35-1-4 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Animals fighting; two lions heraldically crossed and two gazelles. |
14489 | 31-17-16 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. | |
![]() | 18974 | 35-1-9, 35-1-9 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. One seated and three standing figures: two columns of inscription. Inscription: Lugal-ma (C.J.G.) |
15307 | 31-17-126 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. 2 men & 2 scorpions. | |
![]() | 18924 | 35-1-17 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Brown steatite. Two heroes fighting animals. |
13663 | 31-17-23 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Broken. God and worshipper, crescent and emblem. Fragment of inscription. steatite. HC.1929/30 - 100. |
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