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)
7625	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed. Scene of worship. Shaven and shorn votary presented to enthroned Shamash who holds a pot in his left hand. Introducing goddess wears high headdress and flounced kaunakes skirt. Attributes: sun, crescent moon. Inscription: Ur-Su-bu-la; dumu I-me-x; wared Ud-KA-BAR-KU.
7626	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene. Nannar enthroned, left arm upraised to greet votary who holds right arm upwards. Behind the votary a palm three which an erect figure apparently grasps in his right hand. This figure wears a long flowing garment. Nannar has a crescent shaped headdress. Attributes: crescent moon.
7627	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Obliterated. Gates of the underworld? Porter? Divinity with lentoid shaped headdress; 12 stars and crescent moon.
7628	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Font from which rises a palm? On either side a snake? and beyond a hero attacking rampant lion with a sword. Possibly the curved markings at the side of the altar may represent not snakes but handles or running water? [drawing] cf. U.7640
7630	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Blue steatite. Two registers. Top: 7 figures clothed in short tunics reaching only to the knees approaching standing deity. All wear feathered? headdress. Bottom: male figure running, pursued? by animals amongst which are cows??
7631	(none)	1928,1009.50	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Figure approaching enthroned Nannar. Behind the approaching figure a small grotesque being delineated by straight lines and beyond this a spear fixed vertically into the ground, point upwards. Behind Nannar a standing deity?
7632	(none)	1928,1009.54	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Rampant lion followed by 2 rampant rams? Between the rams a standing figure, and behind the lion a palm tree.
7640	(none)	1928,1009.43	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed? In the middle a palm tree rising from a font, on either side of the font a snake? head touching the basin. Also, on either side of the font a male figure one hand upraised as if in ceremony. Possibly the curved markings at the side of the font may represent running water or handles fixed at the top and free below. cf. U.7628.
7657	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Blue. 2 registers. Bangquet scene. Above: seated god holding food? in upright left hand. nest a second seated figure holding up left hand to greet a standing attendant. Third seated figure also holding food in upraised left hand, and standing figure also holding food? opposite. All are shaven and shorn and wear sheep skin dresses. Below: A seated figure holding up hand towards door of shrine? Behind him a second seated figure holding up food which has been handed him by standing attendant. Behind this seated god a standing attendant facing the door of the shrine hands upraised. All have heads shaven and shorn and sheep skin dresses like figures on top register. c. 3000BC.
7662	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal. Double conoid with flattened sides. Incised markings on one side. [drawing 1:1]
7663	(none)	(none)	(none)	Flat seal. Sard, pale blue. Winged insect?
7664	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Blue. 2 registers. Top register: scene of worship. Goddess wearing high horned headdress leads votary by the hand towards seated god who wears flat headdress with horns. Botom: 3 swans swimming on water.
7679	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Very slightly concave. Two naked heroes attacking a rampant lion. One grasps lion by the tail.
7681	(none)	1928,1009.14	(none)	Cylinder seal. Fragment. White marble. Rampant lion. Rampant bull. Attacked by hero with feathered headdress.
7683	(none)	1928,1009.56	(none)	Flat seal. Rectangular base with rounded corners. Half cylinder pierced superimposed. Steatite. Mottled grey. Inscribed. Powerful bull=like animal with head bent downwards. In style of Mohenjo Daro seals.
7690	(none)	1928,1009.57	(none)	Flat seal. Pyramidal. 5 round cavities on flat side [drawing of pattern]
7695A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] 3 hair? rings or ear rings. Gold. Thickened boat shaped ends. [drawing]
7700	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay seal impression. Roughly cube-shaped lump with beginning of same inscription on each face. cf. U.6360, doubtless seal of son of present Sinikisan who had same name as his grandfather Ilusu-ibisa. Date = Hammurabi. HC.3
7714	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay seal impression. Pyramidal lump containing part of same impression on each face. A servant of Dimtabba? HC.14.
7784	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impression Shape as U.7714 Seal of Ilushu-ibisha son of Siniqishum Inscription identical with U.7700; shows also figure of worshipper. Hammurabi
7806	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impression On envelope of a tablet in lot 7804 Between goddess with crescent and distaff and worshipper HC 33
7834A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Brick stamp? [A] Brick-like fragment containing apparently the sign U [drawing] in relief. Part of star-in-circle on reverse. [B] Another smaller fragment of same kind. [drawing]
7835	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impression? on circular clay. Theriomarchy. edge and reverse striated.
7841	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. BA?-MA? DAM figure of Divinity? Gazelle? HC.44
7847	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of clay brick stamp. (Dungi). HC.51