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)
9292	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Black haematite Introduction scene with 1 - seated and 3 - standing figures. A column of inscription has been intentionally effaced
9618	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Black hematite Spread eagle, 2 antelopes, small bird, crescent moon
9100	(none)	(none)	B16878	Cylinder seal Black marble? Highly polished Course cutting Slightly concave Seated god within 2 gates of a shrine. 1 divinity knocking at each door
9501	(none)	1928,1010.247	(none)	Cylinder seal Black steatite 2 heroes fighting a lion. Between the two human figures an inscription in 2 columns. Dugal-dug-ga dumu U-da Lugaldugga son of Uda HC.201
9893	(none)	1928,1010.248	(none)	Cylinder Seal Black steatite 3 animals and a man fighting
9060	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Black steatite A standing bearded male accosts a seated god and a similar standing figure accosts a kneeling deity
10764	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal Black steatite Crude second-rate cutting Male figure with head resembling a deaths head, standing between 2 tall rampant bipeds with long bills. Behind each a rampant beast, one of which is a lion; beyond the lion a tree, a bird-headed male figure wearing a (fork diadem)? and a vertical wavy line representing running water.
9283	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Black steatite Men fighting bull & lion an inscription has been intentionally erased
9923	(none)	1928,1010.250	(none)	Cylinder Seal Black steatite Men fighting bulls and lions
9158	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Black steatite Presentation scene, seated & 3 standing figures.
9878	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Blue and white marble, speckled Palm, 2 rampant lions crossed and a rampant gazelle.
10323	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal Calcite? White. 2 lapis caps inserted into the ends of the seal present a flat lapis surface thus giving the seal the appearance of having a solid lapis core. 2 registers: Upper: Enthroned deity in front of a (champagne?) vase out of which rises (corn?) 2 bird-headed figures wearing sheep-skin skirts approach it. Between them the crescent moon: one carries an offering vase. On either side of each palm a bird-headed figure.
10757	(none)	(none)	B16924	Cylinder Seal Carnelian with gold caps 3 goddesses, one seated; on the lap of the seated goddess a naked male figure. All the goddesses wear wigs of similar type and hair done up at back in a bun. One advances towards throne carrying a bowl, the second carries a vase with a splayed base suspended by a long handle. Behind throne a goddess carrying an (Ostrich fan?) All the goddesses wear skirts fringed at bottom and with a long hem running down side.
10718	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal Copper Minute Subject- Possibly presentation scene before seated god
9513	(none)	(none)	B16941	Cylinder seal Dark green steatite The eagle grasping 2 stags
9750	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal Dark green stone copper caps (one broken) Very finely engraved with religious scenes - god in shrine; god approaching a temple on a mountain, etc.
9282	(none)	1928,1009.27	(none)	Cylinder seal Dark mottled steatite with copper caps. Introduction scene: seated god and 3 figures approaching him and carrying respectively a tall vase, a cup and box and a gazelle [three lines of undecipherable text erased]
9527	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Dark steatite 2 heroes fighting beasts Poor scratchy style
9634	(none)	(none)	B16935	Cylinder Seal Dark steatite 2 heroes fighting lions
9652	(none)	(none)	B16857	Cylinder seal Dark steatite A hero fighting a bull (or wild oryx)? and a lion and a bull fighting.
9504	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Dark steatite Broken Presentation scene: seated Nannar with crescent, minor god and worshipper
9186	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Dark steatite Introduction scene with 1 seated and 3 standing figures and a tree. Poor work.
8673	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Dark steatite Two registers: above, swans Below, fish?? Poor rough work, approaching to the period of the IIIrd Dynasty
9908	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal Fighting animals(?) rough and worn example.
9542	(none)	1928,1010.246	(none)	Cylinder seal Fragment Upper half missing Mottled marble Inscribed Presentation scene before seated god. Flounced kaukanes skirts.