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)
11685	(none)	(none)	(none)	3 clay sealings. with similar geometrical designs.
11686	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Sealing. With geometrical design.
11689	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay Sealing. Presentation scene (?) (2 figures approaching a third. The 3rd. looks human: carries a weapon like the sign RU) illegible? inscription.
11690	(none)	1928,1010.831, 19281010.83	(none)	Seal Impression. Bull (?)-Man embracing gazelle? Bird (small) holding the gazelle? Horned ? -man holding the bird. In front of Horned (?) man Scorpion, behind him, serpent. Illegible? fragment of Inscription.
11709	(none)	1929,1017.369	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Dark steatite. Apparently unfinished. 2 figures (Ea and an adorant) and the beginnings only of a third.
11715	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White shell very badly decayed.
11734	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above mythological beasts; below, a monkey under a tree playing pipes to 2 lions, a bull, a gazelle, and a humn-headed bird.
11745	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. 2 heroes fighting a lion & a bull.
11751	(none)	1929,1017.348	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White shell, the ends inlaid with lapis disks. Very much decayed. 2 heroes & 4 animals: man on the left strikes at a rampant bull(?) turned away from him & grappling with a lion(?) this lions body crosses that of a second lion who attacks a bull which is seized from behind by a figure half human and half bull. Between the two human figures is a double column inscription, upper register only:-Mes-kalam-dug(or sar) Lugal.
11773	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers above, banquet scene; below, Imdugud.
11774	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above, banquet; below, seated deities (?).
11843	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Mottled grey steatite. Men & animals fighting.
11846	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. God seated on mountain, with 2 attendants, and 2 other divine figures standing.
11852	(none)	1929,1017.354	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Animals & men fighting.
11863	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White limestone not bored: roughly engraved. 2 registers: above, banquet and rampant lion; below, Im-dugud.
11868	(none)	1929,1017.372	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers of ibixes walking.
11871	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 seated deities with attendants.
11885	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Dark greenish grey steatite. 2 bulls, heraldically crossed, fighting with 2 lions which are attacked from behind by 2 men. Inscription: the monogram dutu. [drawing of symbol]
11897	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: in each, men & various animals fighting.
11904	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Gold. Of thin metal pressed over a core of some other material: at the ends, shell caps, of which one is missing. Above: the royal family feasting. Below: harpist & other musicians.
11938	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers in each, men & animals.
11952	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers.
11957	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Translucent white quartzite(?)
11958	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White shell. Tree & buffalo of Mohenjo daro type.
11959	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. hematite (broken)