Seals, Stamps, and Sealings

These objects are either used for marking objects, or are reminants of the impressions. These include stamps for bricks, cylinder seals, and seal impressions. They are made of stone terricotta for impressing clay or mud.

Objects: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings Export: JSON - XML - CSV

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
11565	(none)	1929,1017.349	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell. Subject: lions & bulls fighting. Inscribed sign(?) resembling sag, supporting a crescent. HC..10 [drawing]
1156	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of baked clay barrel-cylinder of nabonidus, inscription duplicate of that upon U.1111, U.1113, etc. Fragments of 15 lines, from column I.
11554	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Animals and rosette.
1155	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment from small baked clay barrel-cylinder of Nabonidus. Fragments of 4 lines, from Column I. Inscription of duplicate of U.1111, U.1113, etc. Probably part of same object as U.1154 but does not join.
11533	30-12-24	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White shell. Scene.
11528	30-12-8	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White shell much decayed. Subject: a man & 2 lions rampant against a deer? upside down.
11521C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tomb Group. Consisting (A) A gold frontlet, oval decorated edge with half-punctured dots, as also round the string-holes at each end: broken & parts missing. (B) Beads: a quantity of small lapis balls & a string of gold & carnelian bugles with lapis balls (see Field Notes) (C) A string-sealing of bitumen, a flattened ovoid.
1152	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Persian(?) 2 gryphons facing palm tree. [drawing]
11516	(none)	1929,1017.364	(none)	Cylinder seal. Copper. Undecipherable.
11515	(none)	1929,1017.375	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark grey steatite. Presentation scene.
11509	(none)	1929,1017.378	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Row of men (?) very crude and primitive.
11507	30-12-30	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Of green marble (?) Unfinished. The hole is only partly bored. One standing figure has been sketched but not finished, of a second only the trunk is suggested.
11499	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis. A man fighting two animals.
11496	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Black & white breccia (?) palm tree & 4 figures.
11492	30-12-25	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green stone. Scene: 3 men & 2 lions fighting: one of the men has 4 bulls legs.
11491B	30-12-502	(none)	(none)	[no description, object identified in publication]
11490B	30-12-50	(none)	(none)	Copper Pin & cylinder seal. Copper pin plain, tang head (tang) broken), to which was attached a small white shell cylinder seal with design of a palm tree on one side of which 2 rampant lions, on the other apparently a winged bull (?) the surface very much decayed.
11488	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis. Meander ribbon pattern in 2 registers.
11483	30-12-27	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green stone. Scene: 2 men fighting 2 animals.
11480	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Mostly hidden by 2 silver coiled wire earrings through which it passes. [drawing 1:1]
11476	(none)	1929,1017.367	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark grey steatite. Presentation scene. Ningal seated with attendant behind and two standing figures in front.
11473	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Of rock crystal. Unfinished. 3 figures, 1 seated, 2 standing, have been roughly ground out all but the heads: no engraving as yet, but grinding only. The cylinder is bored and in the bore-hole ridges have been worked to take colored paste.
11464	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis. Scene: 4 figures making offerings to (?), a palm tree.
11462A	(none)	1929,1017.381	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Subject: seated deity & attendant. With this, probably fastened to it, was a (B) copper pin L. 012, same number L. 20mm D. 11mm
1146	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapis lazuli seal. Human figurre incised. [drawing]