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.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
14123B	31-16-670	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. Elaborate geometrical design. Also another [B] more fragmentary example.
13972	31-16-674	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. Geometrical designs (and altars ??).
13933	31-16-645	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. Geometrical, perhaps belonging together.
14128	31-16-624	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. Linear design.
14101	31-16-655	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. Three more impressions from the same cylinder as 13970 adding a new city ideogram and some other signs and ornaments.. HC.218
14103	37-7-103	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. Three more impressions from the same cylinder as 13970 adding a new city ideogram and some other signs and ornaments.. HC.218 UET II: 332).
14140	31-16-619	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. 2 fragments (vegetational) U.14140 has circular stamping also(?)
14136	31-16-632	(none)	(none)	Seal imressions. Gazelles. (2 sealings from same).
7027	(none)	(none)	B16301	Seal. White steatite. Round. Hole perforated horizontally through hemispherical sides. Flat on one side, hemispherical on the other. Hemispherical side has 3 grooves 0002 wide in all bisecting it and concentric circles decoration, 4 in all, 2 on either side of the bisecting line. On flat side in middle enthroned Nannar both hands supporting a post with a crescent moon which is also supported by a bull-man. Behind the throne a similar bull-man also supporting a crescent moon on a post, and below the throne a bull with high horns, crescent shaped. Bull-men (Eabani) are ithyphallic. Hair on legs of Eabani. E. Before 3000 BC.
6988	(none)	(none)	B16302	Seal. Amethyst. Blue-violet. Flat on one side, convex on the other but not completely rounded, apex top. Hawk with spread wings, legs crossed in middle of breast. Neo-Babylonian. E.
6066	(none)	(none)	B16292	Seal. Black steatite. Triangular shape scorpion and? Lizard? About BC 2600. E.
17715	32-40-322	(none)	(none)	Seal. Persian type. Chalcedone. Pierced for threading, engraved lines on face [drawing 1:1].
17662	32-40-319	(none)	(none)	Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1]
6872	(none)	(none)	B16315	Seal. Stone. Convex on one side, flat on the other. Round incisions on the flat side. Pierced. Before 3000 BC. B.
17121A	31-43-10	(none)	(none)	Seals. Two steatite plaques, rectangular and oblong, flat on one side and gabled on the other, the gabled side pierced perhaps for a metal ring handle. A) [drawing 1:1] thus, with rough design of a scorpion. B) smaller but apparently with the same design (much worn)
18285	33-35-80	(none)	(none)	Signet ring. Copper. With oval bezel on which an engraved design, (corroded).
7916	(none)	(none)	B16906	Stamp flat seal. One side convex. Calcite. Greyish. Above a reclining beast, possibly a jackal? and below a second beast with big head.
18284	33-35-170	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Facetted conical: chalcedony. Persian type. Two standing figures worshipping before an altar: crescent above.
16605	31-43-6	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Black steatite. Square. Perforated through holder. Pair of crescent moons. Pair of stars; pair of ostriches. [drawing]
13722	31-17-24	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Translucent white quartzite(?) oval, flat below & rounded above: on the flat base, traces of an animal design mostly done with a drill-point, in dots joined up by rough engraving; the design really unrecognisable now. [drawing 1:1]
16408	31-43-2	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Circular, convex above of striped black and white marble, design almost entirely perished; worked mostly with the drill. [drawing 1:1]
16734	31-43-68	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Glazed frit. Palm tree(?) Perforated for suspension. [drawing]
16618	31-43-9	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Greenish grey steatite. Pyramidal. 2 scorpions.
18337	33-35-169	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, with convex tip, pierced horizontally. Subject: 2 animals, a third animal and an unrecognizable object: engraved mostly with the circular drill.
17340	31-43-11	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1]