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.

Objects: Seals, Stamps, and Sealings Export: JSON - XML - CSV

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
488	(none)	(none)	(none)	Agate seal. Same shape as U.486. subject [drawing]
491	(none)	1923,1110.197	(none)	Amethystine quartz seal. Pointed on top, like U.486, Subject, sphinx couchant.[drawing]
15806	(none)	(none)	(none)	Amulet. Carnelian stamp seal. Engraved with figure of a squatting sphinx. [drawing 1:1]
16190	31-43-8	(none)	(none)	Amulet. Shell. Flattened double conoid. Engraved with design of snaked(?)
18341	33-35-164	(none)	(none)	Animal's body. Grey steatite. Body of couchant animal, the hind quarters complete, in fairly high relief: the front leg only sketched: the stone is rounded off at the shoulder so that there never was a head. The body is flat and bears two engraved signs thus. [drawing]
20041C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. [A] A large collection, mostly carnelian but also other stones[?], of various forms together with a [B] steatite pendant thus [drawing] and a [C] paste scarab inscribed thus [drawing] [D] and a copper fibula (broken) thus [drawing] . Said to have been found with nos 20042-7.
2650	(none)	(none)	(none)	Black clay sealing. Impression of the seal of Ama-ab-gi: Ama-ab-gi dam Ses-kal-la : wife of Shesh kal-la. Scene represents a seated goddess hand extended below crescent moon, perhaps holding small vase, and receiving the worshipper. [drawing]
6705	(none)	(none)	(none)	Black clay sealing. With 2 seal impressions. 10) Iluka ilu ( ), son of Lala( ), servant of Hammura(pi). ; 20) ( ), son of Ha-li-ne, servant of Hammura(pi). H.C.
1189	(none)	(none)	(none)	Black steatite cylinder seal with rather careless design of the "introduction" scene, the god facing right, with crescent before him.
1187	(none)	(none)	(none)	Black steatite cylinder-seal with device of "introduction" to a god, who faces right with crescent over him. Inscribed: - IM-ti-dam; mar I-li-mi.
6535	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bottle neck seal. Clay. Warriors fighting bulls.
8426	(none)	(none)	(none)	Brick stamp Baked clay Fragment
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]
7834B	(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]
2814	(none)	(none)	(none)	Broken Cylinder Seal. Carnelian. Assyrian influence about BC 700. Tree of life and genius. [drawing]
6200	(none)	1927,0527.197	(none)	Broken cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Scene of worshipping. To dNin-shubur, the messenger of heaven About BC 2100.
16362	(none)	1931,1010.272	(none)	Bronze finger ring with oval-shaped bezel.
14435A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze object. Flat seal? Buoy shaped. [drawing 1:1]
789	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze seal. Engraved with a lion walking l. Persian style. [drawing 1:1]
9265	(none)	1928,1009.59	(none)	Button seal Black shale? One side flat, the other convex On the convex side 4 sets of concentric rings Pl. 62 vol. IV L.BM. 120576
16397	31-43-74	(none)	(none)	Button seal. Baked clay. Glazed. Bleached white. Stamped with scorpion. Dome-shaped bulbous dome stamped with 4 concentric circles. [drawing]
17342	(none)	1931,1010.14	(none)	Button seal. Polished stone. Mottled. Fragment.
17341	31-43-76	(none)	(none)	Button seal. Steatite(?). White. Fragment. Half only remains. Animals. With a boss on the upper side perforated for suspension.
16181	(none)	1931,1010.13	(none)	Button seal. Steatite. Incised cross on flat side. Convex side also had triple cross incisions and incised circles. Over part of the seal is a white surface that has the appearance of a glaze. Seal has been perforated transversely through the convex side. The white surface is visible also the inside of the perforated hole. [drawing]
1044	(none)	(none)	B15271	Button seal. White quartzite, oval top. Roughly engraved with date. [drawing]