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)
8615	(none)	(none)	B16828	Cylinder seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above: three seated deities(?) with a worshipper in front of each. Below: door: 3 seated and 3 standing figures. Archaic style.
8643	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell. 2 registers: above, banquet scene with 2 seated figures, 1 attendant, and shrine door. Below, one human figure and fighting animals.
8646	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell. Very much worn: scene of fighting animals.
8656	(none)	1928,1009.34	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli 2 registers: above, eagle displayed below, banquet scene with 3 seated figures and shrine door
8662	(none)	1928,1009.45	(none)	Cylinder seal Pink limestone Decorative design, chevrons and running loops
8666	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli: with gold caps. Subject: Gilgamesh and lion, hero and antelope.
8668	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell. In poor condition.
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
8681	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Lapis 2 registers, above [reference to drawing] Below, [reference to drawing] One end chipped.
8685	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, button type. Design: below, a bull. Above.
8699	(none)	1928,1009.17	(none)	Cylinder seal. Brown mottled steatite. Winged god in a shrine and two minor gods apparently opening the shrine doors.
8701	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell? Surface powdered through fire. 2 registers: Geometric designs consisting of circles and lines well spread apart radiating from them. [drawing] Design mostly obliterated. Broken in 2 halves.
8713	(none)	(none)	B16862	Cylinder seal Shell, highly polished Geometric design. Triangles, short straight lines running parallel to one another and designs resembling a coiling serpent [drawing of serpent shape]
8714	(none)	(none)	B17033	Cylinder seal. Crystal. Two registers. Above: Male figure approaching from behind a lion? in front of the lion a fallen gazelle and in front of the gazelle a winged dragon. Below: A winged dragon, and second similar? and a rampant gazelle?
8721	(none)	1928,1009.24	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Highly polished. 2 rampant lions crossed and on either side a rampant gantelope. Between the antelopes a palm or corn [drawing]
8747	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Marble. Mottled. 5 standing divinities all wearing high horned headdresses. One walks upon the mountain - left leg straight, right leg slightly bent at knee as in an attitude of climbing - in his right hand he holds a plume? Oblique lines on either side touching the shoulders and waist possibly the sun's rays? Facing him a divinity carrying an offering? in his left hand, behind a god carrying a gazelle. Beyond but facing the opposite direction a god Ea? with water flowing from eah shoulder and beyond again a god grasping a ladder, head turned towards Ea as if inviting him to ascend. Possibly this is the ladder of heaven which has already been ascended by all except these two divinities.
8792	(none)	1928,1009.19	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. Two registers. Above: a banquet scene. Below: men and animals.
8793	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite black. Seated god and 4 erect - gods? approaching one holds a vase with a handle to it.
8799	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed but obliterated. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hand? to seated god.
8800	(none)	1928,1009.51	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. Yellowish. Crescent moon on post and 3 errect figures with right hands upraised approaching to worship.
8804	(none)	(none)	B17217	Clay sealing?? Large clay fragment with elaborate design of spirals etc.
8807	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. On fragment of envelop? Mentioning Sin-e-ri-(baram)?
8813A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal Impressions. (A) On a label (unmarked in match box) (B) On 4 fragments of envelope. (C) On fragment of tablet (Mentioning dSukal-an-na) (D) On fragment of Envelope Servant of Dungi
8813B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal Impressions. (A) On a label (unmarked in match box) (B) On 4 fragments of envelope. (C) On fragment of tablet (Mentioning dSukal-an-na) (D) On fragment of Envelope Servant of Dungi
8813C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal Impressions. (A) On a label (unmarked in match box) (B) On 4 fragments of envelope. (C) On fragment of tablet (Mentioning dSukal-an-na) (D) On fragment of Envelope Servant of Dungi