Seals, Stamps, and Sealings
This category includes objects used for marking other objects for purposes of showing ownership.
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
Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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![]() | 13686 | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) |
![]() | 13686A | (none) | 1930,1213.457, 19301213.46 | (none) | Seal impression. Gilgamesh and animals. Inscribed INI-tur-NIN. (cf. NIN-tur-NIN wife of Mesannipadda RIU 268) cr. following. HC.9 |
![]() | 13686B | (none) | 1930,1213.458, 19301213.46 | (none) | Seal impression. Another (fragmentary) example of the seal - 13686. HC.9. Ph. 1408 (the smallest fragment) |
13687 | 31-16-610 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Scorpion? Man with radiate hair, lion. | |
13688 | 31-16-667 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Man with radiate hair and animals. | |
![]() | 13689 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Two impressions on jar-sealing of series of animals. |
![]() | 13690 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impressions. Five fragmentary impressions: men and animals. |
![]() | 13691 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impressions. Five fragmentary impressions: men and animals. |
![]() | 13692 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impressions. Five fragmentary impressions: men and animals. |
![]() | 13693 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impressions. Five fragmentary impressions: men and animals. |
![]() | 13694 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impressions. Five fragmentary impressions: men and animals. |
![]() | 13696 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. With inscription. Fragment little legible (apparently containing theophorous name ending dDungi) HC.207. |
![]() | 13697 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression, with inscription. fragment. Little legible. HC.206. |
![]() | 13703 | (none) | 1930,1213.131 | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. Broken at one end. Geometrical pattern, roughly thus. [drawing] |
13711 | 31-17-15 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. With linear design. | |
![]() | 13712 | (none) | 1930,1213.521 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Pinkish-white marble. Design of a man fighting with an antelope and a bull, of which the latter is attacked by a lion; the man kneels on one knee. Very crude work. |
13722 | 31-17-24 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Translucent white quartzite(?) oval, flat below & rounded above: on the flat base, traces of an animal design mostly done with a drill-point, in dots joined up by rough engraving; the design really unrecognisable now. [drawing 1:1] | |
![]() | 13726 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell. Much worn. Design of 3 fighting animals; the rest of the field divided into 2 registers in which small animal(?) figures. |
![]() | 13760B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Unknown |
![]() | 13802 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. 2 registers: above, asses in file: below, figures in high prowed boats. cf. 13813, 13847, (SIS) |
![]() | 13809 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay object. Hatched with finely ruled lines. |
![]() | 13813 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. =13802. |
![]() | 13814 | 31-16-618 | (none) | (none) | (none) |
13814A | 31-16-618 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Man and ? Fragmentary. Inscription? HC.208. | |
![]() | 13814B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Unknown |
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Child Terms
Brick Stamps - Cylinder Seals - Seal Impression - Stamp Seals