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)
11440A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Cylinder seal & [B] pin. Copper pin, slender: To which was attached (by a string) a cylinder seal of white shell, with scene of fighting animals; hopelessly decayed on one side.
11442	(none)	1929,1017.387	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Presentation scene: seated goddess and two worshippers; also 2 columns of inscription. With this was a copper pin too decayed to keep: the seal was clearly fastened to the pin by a thread. Inscript: ZI-TAG, KA-SU-DU, =ZI-TAG, Libationer. HC.4.
11447	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Slatey grey stone. Presentation scene: seated Nannar & 2 worshippers.
11449	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Square with tubular handle, one corner anciently broken. Scene: a worshipper before Ningal.
11452A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group. Consisting of [A] (1) a cylinder seal of red baked clay with white slip: in poor condition but interesting for its fabric. It is attached to part of a copper pin. Inscription EN-dUtu(?); [B] (2) a few beads of lapis and silver, mixed types; [C] (3) a silver hair-ring, 5 spiral coils of thin wire; [D] (4) a copper pin, point missing.
11456	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black and white breccia. Subject: animals and men fighting. Inscription GUR-na. [drawing] HC..6.
11457	(none)	1929,1017.357	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green stone. Scene: 2 men & 2 animals fighting. Inscription with lion below. Inscription: Ad-da ni du= Adda, Doorkeeper. HC..7.
11458	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis with gold caps.
11462A	(none)	1929,1017.381	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Subject: seated deity & attendant. With this, probably fastened to it, was a (B) copper pin L. 012, same number L. 20mm D. 11mm
11464	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis. Scene: 4 figures making offerings to (?), a palm tree.
11473	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Of rock crystal. Unfinished. 3 figures, 1 seated, 2 standing, have been roughly ground out all but the heads: no engraving as yet, but grinding only. The cylinder is bored and in the bore-hole ridges have been worked to take colored paste.
11476	(none)	1929,1017.367	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark grey steatite. Presentation scene. Ningal seated with attendant behind and two standing figures in front.
11480	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Mostly hidden by 2 silver coiled wire earrings through which it passes. [drawing 1:1]
11488	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis. Meander ribbon pattern in 2 registers.
11496	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Black & white breccia (?) palm tree & 4 figures.
11499	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis. A man fighting two animals.
11509	(none)	1929,1017.378	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Row of men (?) very crude and primitive.
11515	(none)	1929,1017.375	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark grey steatite. Presentation scene.
11516	(none)	1929,1017.364	(none)	Cylinder seal. Copper. Undecipherable.
11521C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tomb Group. Consisting (A) A gold frontlet, oval decorated edge with half-punctured dots, as also round the string-holes at each end: broken & parts missing. (B) Beads: a quantity of small lapis balls & a string of gold & carnelian bugles with lapis balls (see Field Notes) (C) A string-sealing of bitumen, a flattened ovoid.
11554	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Animals and rosette.
11565	(none)	1929,1017.349	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell. Subject: lions & bulls fighting. Inscribed sign(?) resembling sag, supporting a crescent. HC..10 [drawing]
11580	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. 2 registers. Presentation scenes.
11581	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis with gold caps. A man, animals & a palm tree.
11582	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Dark brown mottled steatite. Presentation scene.