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)
1437	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Light grey stone. 2 registers: upper, 3 seated figures, female, with plant in jar between 2 of them; lower register, scene with ibex(?)
1438	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. Faint traces of figures; much worn.
1487	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Crystal. Four-winged deity carrying a sickle and facing him a winged bull erect; a cross between their feet. In text: see U.1359 etc.
1510	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal. Black stone. Conical; deity(?) and crescent on pole.
1518	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of baked clay cylinder of Nabonidus. Fragments of 5 lines from column I of inscription duplicate of U.1111, etc.
1522	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark stone. Half. With trace of an archaic inscription.
1523	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. One side much damaged. Device is in 2 registers. Introduction scene above and crude design of swans below. Inscription: ahat-i-li-lugal-usum-(gal)-la PA. For design and inscription compare U.1268 and U.1267.
1544	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing deity (Marduk) and seated deity with altar between and tree at back.
1545	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black stone. With figures faintly distinguishable.
1546	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White stone. Human figure and lion(?)
1628	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed with scene of presentation to goddess.
1631	(none)	(none)	(none)	Conical seal. Clay. Surface of green glaze; with traces of incised design. Not with photo. [drawing 1:1]
1635	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of baked clay cylinder of Nabonidus. Duplicate of U.1111, etc., containing last 12 lines of column I.
1636	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. With roughly engraved device of introduction ceremony, and inscription of 2 lines. Ur-dub: dumu Ur-d.Kal
1646	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Clay, with device of eagle, lance, etc.
1647	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Blue stone. Irregularly cylindrical, with no trace of device.
1648	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Clay. Presentation to deity, broken.
1659	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Light red stone. A four-winged deity fighting a winged antelope: crescent above. Cutting and style appear Kassite.
1706	(none)	(none)	B15594	Cylinder seal. Light brown stone. With traces of archaic design of fishes.
1707	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Stone. Half broken away. With erect animal and human figure.
1708	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Fragment, shell. With traces of design.
1712	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment from middle of a small baked clay cylinder of Nabonidus, containing parts of both columns duplicate of U.1111, etc.
1733	(none)	(none)	B15589	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Very scratchily engraved on one side only with design of 2 men fighting a lion. P. [drawing]
1734	(none)	(none)	B15590	Cylinder seal. grey stone. Broken. Upper part only of introduction scene with crescent moon in front of god. P.
2502	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Inscribed. Glass paste. Bluish white. Broken. Fragments missing. Two lines nearly illegible: ( )-bi-a; ( ) -il. Figures worn, indistinct. Neo-Babylon - Persian Period.