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)
16117	31-43-66	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Mauve chalcedony(?) Concial-suspended by copper wire. Roughly engraved with figure of a man. [drawing]
18448	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Limestone. Conical type. Subject: a standing bull, with crescent above.
17340	31-43-11	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1]
18337	33-35-169	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, with convex tip, pierced horizontally. Subject: 2 animals, a third animal and an unrecognizable object: engraved mostly with the circular drill.
8685	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, button type. Design: below, a bull. Above.
17649	(none)	1932,1008.178	(none)	Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular with ribbed loop handle Mohenjodaro type with characteric Indian bull and inscription of 4 characters. [drawing]
16618	31-43-9	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Greenish grey steatite. Pyramidal. 2 scorpions.
16734	31-43-68	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Glazed frit. Palm tree(?) Perforated for suspension. [drawing]
19579	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Square, with pierced pyramidical top. A lizard and 2 scorpions.
18190	(none)	1932,1008.179	(none)	Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Square pyramidal design, a spread eagle.
11181	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Handle type, rectangular. Scorpion. [drawing 1:1]
17330	(none)	1931,1010.70	(none)	Stamp seal. Conical. Glass paste? Gazelle crescent moon.
16408	31-43-2	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Circular, convex above of striped black and white marble, design almost entirely perished; worked mostly with the drill. [drawing 1:1]
18354	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Chalcedony. High flattened conical type a worshipper upon a disk set on a staff.
16218	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Chalcedony. Facetted conoid. Below: an adorant before an altar. Persian [drawing 1:1]
18442	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Button type: pierced horizontally grey steatite. In the convex top are 6 shallow holes drilled, partly to take inlay: on the flat base is a roughly engraved subject.
16613	(none)	1931,1010.71	(none)	Stamp seal. Black steatite. Spread eagle. [drawing]
17381	(none)	1931,1010.69	(none)	Stamp seal. Baked clay. Green. Figures on three sides. Demon, gazelle, bird and on under side man with hand raised over a spear (?) [drawing 1:1]
17343	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Baked clay. Crescent shaped. Design: Deeplay and crescent thus [reference to drawing] [drawing]
16610	(none)	1931,1010.63	(none)	Stamp seal. White marble? 3 animals, one of them a gazelle? [drawing]
14476	(none)	1930,1213.139	(none)	Stamp seal. White marble(?) or pebble. scaraboid shape. Rudely engraved below thus: [drawing 1:1]
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]
16678	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Steatite. Square. Spread eagle. Hole perforated horizontally through convex upper side of seal.
18830	(none)	1935,0112.55	(none)	Stamp seal. Square. Dark mottled steatite. A spread eagle holding in one claw a club(?) and with the other clasping a small human figure.
15491	(none)	1930,1213.143	(none)	Stamp seal. Rounded, upper side umbilical. Greenish glaze with design of a dog(?). [drawing 1:1]