Seals, Stamps, and Sealings
This category includes objects used for marking other objects for purposes of showing ownership.
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.
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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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![]() | 30679 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
![]() | 30680 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
![]() | 30681 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
![]() | 30682 | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
![]() | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
![]() | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
![]() | 30665A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
![]() | 30665B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
![]() | 30665C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
![]() | 30665D | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
![]() | 30666A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
![]() | 30666D | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
![]() | 8826G | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablets. Archaic tablets like the older ones of preceding lot: (except the smallest which is from near the surface). |
![]() | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Card Missing] |
![]() | 10444B | (none) | 1928,1010.833 | (none) | [A-C] Gold Impressions from Cylinder seals 3 Very thin gold foil which has been pressed into seals so as to take the engraving |
![]() | 10444A | (none) | 1928,1010.297 | (none) | Gold Impressions from cylinder seals (3) Very thin gold foil which has been pressed into seals so as to take the engraving. Found near box. |
![]() | 67A | (none) | 1923,1110.200 | B15239 | Clay seals 2. From wheat-sack fastening cords each bearing stamps of oval seals. on (A) pegasus, lion, stag. on (B) lion(?), Bucranium, etc. [Annotated] B and Phil |
![]() | 67B | (none) | (none) | B15239 | Clay seals 2. From wheat-sack fastening cords each bearing stamps of oval seals. on (A) pegasus, lion, stag. on (B) lion(?), Bucranium, etc. [Annotated] B and Phil |
775 | (none) | (none) | B15248 | Carnelian cylinder seal. Archer in chariot driving rt. shoots at kneeling archer l. Late style with a good deal of drill point work, but not bad. ? 8th century. | |
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] | |
497 | (none) | (none) | B15250 | Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing] | |
496 | (none) | (none) | B15255 | Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing] | |
487 | (none) | (none) | B15256 | Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [referencing drawin] [drawing] | |
1044 | (none) | (none) | B15271 | Button seal. White quartzite, oval top. Roughly engraved with date. [drawing] | |
234 | (none) | (none) | B15272 | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor. |
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Child Terms
Brick Stamps - Cylinder Seals - Seal Impression - Stamp Seals