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)
16126	(none)	1931,1010.57	(none)	Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Linear markings. Phoenician script. To be deciphered. 2 signs ? only.
16638	(none)	1931,1010.62	(none)	Flat seal. Ovoid. White limestone. Scorpion? and 5 circles. [drawing]
16610	(none)	1931,1010.63	(none)	Stamp seal. White marble? 3 animals, one of them a gazelle? [drawing]
17381	(none)	1931,1010.69	(none)	Stamp seal. Baked clay. Green. Figures on three sides. Demon, gazelle, bird and on under side man with hand raised over a spear (?) [drawing 1:1]
17330	(none)	1931,1010.70	(none)	Stamp seal. Conical. Glass paste? Gazelle crescent moon.
16613	(none)	1931,1010.71	(none)	Stamp seal. Black steatite. Spread eagle. [drawing]
16106	(none)	1931,1010.72	(none)	Flat seal. Greenish grey steatite. Spread eagle and gazelle - a pair?
16805	(none)	1931,1010.74	(none)	Carnelian scaraboid. Phoenician inscription. [drawing]
16165	(none)	1931,1010.75	(none)	Flat seal. Brownish stone. 1 end missing. Ovoid. Figure standing before an alter(?) Attibute? Sun?
16783C	(none)	1931,1010.77	(none)	[A-C] 3 seals. 2 scaraboids. (A). 1 frit scaraboid with scorpion engraved; (B). 1 mottled marble(?) with gazelle engraved. (C). 1 brownish stone stamp seal: star engraved.
17448	(none)	1931,1010.79	(none)	Clay impression. Unbaked. Of bull running, tail up, head down. Outline of body done as a dot border. Style similar to that of bulls on the Ishtar Gate. Fine workmanship. Figure of bull is complete, but the plaque on which it is impressed is a fragment, one side of which is missing.
17812C	(none)	1932,1008.154	(none)	Group. From one burial. (A) [A and D] Small gold earrings, single pendants with lunate end, not the normal spiral coil type, thus [drawing 1:1] (B) Small beads, minute fluted gold balls and plain carnelian balls, one large carnelian flattened sphere and one lapis ball of copper plated with gold. (C) Cylinder seal, dark steatite, spread eagle and 2 men holding between them a vase (?) on a tree.
17663	(none)	1932,1008.156	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite, black. 2 lions and 2 gazelles heraldically arranged; a star between the gazelles.
18172	(none)	1932,1008.157	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Eagle grasping 2 stags. Poor work.
18192	(none)	1932,1008.158	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Introduction scene, 3 standing figures. Poor rough work.
17738	(none)	1932,1008.159	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. 2 standing figures; crescent on staff.
17707	(none)	1932,1008.161	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. 2 men fighting lion; inscription containing royal name.
18183	(none)	1932,1008.163	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. A standing god, a worshipper at a shrine (?) and 2 columns of inscription. Badly cut and much worn.
18184	(none)	1932,1008.164	(none)	Cylinder seal. Light steatite. 2 trees (?) and a standard (?) rude early cutting: much worn.
18174	(none)	1932,1008.168	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit -- the glaze perished. Rampant goat (?) and dragon.
17958	(none)	1932,1008.169	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Kneeling man shooting many antlered gazelle.
17607	(none)	1932,1008.173	(none)	Cylinder seal. White steatite. Solid type, unpierced with 2 columns of inscription, roughly done, and no figures.
17868	(none)	1932,1008.173	(none)	Cylinder seal. White limestone. Introduction scene with seated deity and 2 standing figures: poor work.
18182	(none)	1932,1008.175	(none)	Cylinder seal. White marble. A double row of horizontal slashes.
18157	(none)	1932,1008.176	(none)	Cylinder seal. Frit, once glazed but glaze all perished. Crude design: a hunter, with birds in the field: triangle border.