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)
14688	31-16-605	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Elaborate geometrical design.
14769	31-16-601	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Eagle, conflicting animals, gazelle.
14687	31-16-612	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Design representing basketwork?
14163	31-16-672	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Deer, star, branch (tree), and man.
14643	31-16-673	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Dancing man?
14000	31-16-616	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Cult scene. Naked man with pot before seated figure, behind him pots and another object.
13954	31-16-679	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Arabesque.
14514	31-16-681	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Animal & human figure.
14825A	31-16-633	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. 2 pieces. Probalby belonging together. Stars, stylized reptile, etc. and rosette stamp.
14825B	31-16-671	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. 2 pieces. Probalby belonging together. Stars, stylized reptile, etc. and rosette stamp.
14597	31-16-603	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. 2 persons concerned with pots: a child; an emblem; a rosette stamp;
9976	(none)	(none)	B16858	Seal White marble Oval: rounded top, flat base on which figures of animals roughly done with a drill [drawing] 1:1
497	(none)	(none)	B15250	Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
16120	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Dark green glazed frit. Engraved with crescent moon and squatting man. [drawing]
496	(none)	(none)	B15255	Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
17355	31-43-71	(none)	(none)	Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA?
16025	31-43-27	(none)	(none)	Quartzite Cylinder seal. HC../30 UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16743	31-43-46	(none)	(none)	Quartz cylinder. Unengraved. Unpierced. cf. U. 16606. [drawing 1:1]
12771N	31-17-319D	(none)	(none)	Objects. (A) Miniature white calcite bowl (the rim chipped) thus [reference to drawing] [Type RC12]. [drawing 1:1] (B) Shallow bowl of basic diorite (?). (C) Fragment of stone bowl (?) re-used and pierced with 3 holes: basic diorite (?). [drawing] (D) Miniature square box roughly made from light drab clay. (E) Miniature clay bowl. (F) Miniature goblet in light drab clay thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2] (G) Wheelmade pot of pinkish clay with pin-hole orifice at neck (neck broken off). [drawing] (H) Clay bead (?) or handle (?) rough cylinder longitudinally pierced. [U.12771I not assigned] (J) Oval pebble burnisher. Thin and flat. (K) Flint chip. (L) Flint saw. (M) Part of clay jar-sealing with indistinct traces of relief. (N) Clay jar sealing with rows of animals. [drawing 1:1] (O) Flint hoe (?) of T.O. type [Tel Obaid].
16547	31-43-51	(none)	(none)	Limestone cylinder seal Nin-es(?)-ba-na, Son of ... H.C. 30/II, 3.
14813	31-16-652	(none)	(none)	Jar-sealing. Scratchings. Signs(?) HC.2036
13653	31-16-629	(none)	(none)	Jar-sealing. Archaic human figures and unidentified details.
13607A	31-16-677	(none)	(none)	Jar-sealing. [A-B] Two large fragments. Original diam. part. c. 013 Inscription: (me)s (?)-an-ni-p(ad)-da Lugal Kiski dam nu-gig. Left of inscriptions: naked man holding lion by tail, lion facing another man. Right of inscriptions: Lion attacks caprid; fine gilgamis figure holding caprid; himself attacked by lion. Below inscription: square design of four little naked men (note hair or headdress) each attacking one in front? with dagger (of different sorts.) Hc. 1929/30-4.
14733	31-16-678	(none)	(none)	Jar-sealing, mark of linen beneath.
14878	31-16-680	(none)	(none)	Jar sealings. With rough scratchings. (complete).