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)
(none)	(none)	(none)	B15274	Unknown
(none)	(none)	(none)	B15273	Unknown
234	(none)	(none)	B15272	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor.
1044	(none)	(none)	B15271	Button seal. White quartzite, oval top. Roughly engraved with date. [drawing]
487	(none)	(none)	B15256	Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [referencing drawin] [drawing]
496	(none)	(none)	B15255	Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
497	(none)	(none)	B15250	Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
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]
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.
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
11036	47-29-444	(none)	(none)	Seal Impression. 1-fragment from Dub-lalmah archive. Seal of son of Ur-dingir-ra? Lugal Ka-gi-na. Present: scene showing only Patron (with both hands raised) and Client. HC..177
11401	30-12-23	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Pinkish grey steatite. Early type. Subject: 2 figures with bird-like heads seated facing each other and drinking through tubes from a common vessel. They are seated in a boat with high stem and prow, a reed plant (?) at the end of the boat and below objects like reed bundles.
11405	30-12-39	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White shell. Presentation scene: Seated goddess: before her a female worshipper introduced by a goddess.
11415	30-12-48	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Grey steatite. (Found broken and in bad condition)
11418	30-12-29	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green Jasper. Two men fighting 2 lions, the latter heraldically crossed, and an inscription in 2 lines. Inscription: UrdGIS-BIL-ga-mes dub-sar sumu Urd KA-DI = Ur-Gilgames scribe, son of Ur-KA-DI. HC.1928/9-2.
11428	30-12-51	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell much decayed.
11443	30-12-49	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell, much decayed. Inscription apparently: Sagdudu. HC..5.
11448	30-12-22	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark grey steatite. 2 winged animals, heraldically crossed.
11452A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group. Consisting of [A] (1) a cylinder seal of red baked clay with white slip: in poor condition but interesting for its fabric. It is attached to part of a copper pin. Inscription EN-dUtu(?); [B] (2) a few beads of lapis and silver, mixed types; [C] (3) a silver hair-ring, 5 spiral coils of thin wire; [D] (4) a copper pin, point missing.
11483	30-12-27	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green stone. Scene: 2 men fighting 2 animals.
11490B	30-12-50	(none)	(none)	Copper Pin & cylinder seal. Copper pin plain, tang head (tang) broken), to which was attached a small white shell cylinder seal with design of a palm tree on one side of which 2 rampant lions, on the other apparently a winged bull (?) the surface very much decayed.
11491B	30-12-502	(none)	(none)	[no description, object identified in publication]
11492	30-12-25	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green stone. Scene: 3 men & 2 lions fighting: one of the men has 4 bulls legs.
11507	30-12-30	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Of green marble (?) Unfinished. The hole is only partly bored. One standing figure has been sketched but not finished, of a second only the trunk is suggested.
11528	30-12-8	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White shell much decayed. Subject: a man & 2 lions rampant against a deer? upside down.