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)
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]
13711	31-17-15	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell. With linear design.
14087	31-17-116	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell. Poor condition. Poor cutting. 2 lions crossed.
15320	31-17-115	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell, much worn and defaced. (Found below burial K)
16620	31-43-13	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White limestone. Part of design obliterated. Presentation scene - originally 4 standing figures (3) only remain) before an enthroned god. Last figure carries a lamp(?). Crescent Moon.
18925	35-1-8	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Very dark steatite. Hero fighting heraldically crossed lions and bulls.
13552	31-17-125	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Crude cutting.
16599	31-43-21	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. (Not pierced) Gimil- ^dNin-gis-si(d) , dumu ^dLugal-gu-ni-da.
18948	35-1-13, 35-1-13	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Standing god with two worshippers; two columns of inscription. Inscription: Ilu-su(?)-ir, son of Dudu (C.J.G.)
14216	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Shell. [drawing]
19230	35-1-3	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. Fightling animals and a spread eagle over a tree.
19191	35-1-1	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. With rings of steatite inset at the two ends. Heroes fighting animals. (somewhat decayed).
18923	35-1-2	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. A hero, and fighting animals. Archaic: very much worn and defaced.
18976	35-1-5	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Light yellowish stone. 2 heroes fighting animals.
15309	31-17-22	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis. Presentation scene. Poor cutting.
19075	35-1-7	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two registers: in each, a row of animals, the rows inverted.
18914	35-1-6	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two registers: above, two heroes each fighting with two beasts below, seated and standing figures.
18994	35-1-14	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two hunters fighting a lion.
15043	31-17-19	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis lazuli. Presentation. Star in crescent. Inscription dNin-gal-nam-nin-kho-ul dumu lu-dingir-ra N. son of L. scribe. HC.103.
14041	31-17-17	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers: above; bird-headed men sucking drink from a bowl through a tube. Below; spread eagle and a pair of goats.
18927	35-1-10	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity and 2 worshippers and goat.
16677	31-43-24	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey marble? Presentation scene: 2 standing figures before a seated god.
16623	31-43-64	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Greenish grey steatite. Unfinished. Unpierced. 2 standing figures. Crude cutting.
18981	35-1-21	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green stone. 2 heroes fighting lions.
18919	35-1-22, 35-1-22	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green steatite (?) with copper caps. Two standing gods shaking hands: two men killing a kneeling prisoner: two columns of inscription supported by an animal. Good work.