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)
1172	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone cylinder seal. Black stone. Engraved with figures, goddess and worshippers. [drawing 1:1]
11725	30-12-40	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell. A god with one foot on a hill, & 3 worshippers. Inscription (Lug)al(?)-(?)-la(?)-ni dub-sar(=scribe).
1173	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone cylinder seal. Black stone. Engraved with figures in 2 registers: upper register presentation to god; lower register, frieze of swans swimming to right. [drawing 1:1]
11734	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above mythological beasts; below, a monkey under a tree playing pipes to 2 lions, a bull, a gazelle, and a humn-headed bird.
11745	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. 2 heroes fighting a lion & a bull.
11751	(none)	1929,1017.348	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White shell, the ends inlaid with lapis disks. Very much decayed. 2 heroes & 4 animals: man on the left strikes at a rampant bull(?) turned away from him & grappling with a lion(?) this lions body crosses that of a second lion who attacks a bull which is seized from behind by a figure half human and half bull. Between the two human figures is a double column inscription, upper register only:-Mes-kalam-dug(or sar) Lugal.
11757	30-12-13	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Sides slightly convex. 2 registers: gazelles rough linear drawing.
11773	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers above, banquet scene; below, Imdugud.
11774	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above, banquet; below, seated deities (?).
11825	30-12-1	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis Lazuli. Gazelle attacked by bull, & gazelle attacked by 2 bulls. Inscription: Su-sikil(?) DINGER-SES-AB lugal-ni Kalam-dug-dam. We expect dam-Kalam-dug and perhaps this is possible. ni is written between lines 2 &3, and dam between lines 3 & 4, but both at the end (right). Provisional translation: -Pure Hand (=Handmaid ?) of Nannar (new ideogram.) her King. Kalam-dug-dam (or Dam-Kalam-dug =Wife of the good land).
11828	30-12-5	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above, banquet; below, 2 gazelles. (rough & early work).
11843	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Mottled grey steatite. Men & animals fighting.
11846	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. God seated on mountain, with 2 attendants, and 2 other divine figures standing.
11852	(none)	1929,1017.354	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Animals & men fighting.
11863	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White limestone not bored: roughly engraved. 2 registers: above, banquet and rampant lion; below, Im-dugud.
11868	(none)	1929,1017.372	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers of ibixes walking.
1187	(none)	(none)	(none)	Black steatite cylinder-seal with device of "introduction" to a god, who faces right with crescent over him. Inscribed: - IM-ti-dam; mar I-li-mi.
11871	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 seated deities with attendants.
11885	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Dark greenish grey steatite. 2 bulls, heraldically crossed, fighting with 2 lions which are attacked from behind by 2 men. Inscription: the monogram dutu. [drawing of symbol]
11889	30-12-7	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White shell (in poor condition) A man, a lion, a bull & a gazelle fighting.
1189	(none)	(none)	(none)	Black steatite cylinder seal with rather careless design of the "introduction" scene, the god facing right, with crescent before him.
11895	30-12-15	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 ibex walking.
11896	30-12-31	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Pale green calcite. (1 side decayed) human-headed bulls & heroes fighting.
11897	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: in each, men & various animals fighting.
11899	30-12-21	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Geometrical design.