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)
14194	31-16-661	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Large impression of antlers? etc.
14195	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Rosette (Stamp) etc.
14196	31-16-665	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Naked man with staff(?) over shoulder, animals.
14197	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. Stamp sealing (bird??)
14198	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. 2 more fragments from collection SIS 6.
14199	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impression. 2 more fragments from collection SIS 6.
142	(none)	(none)	(none)	White shell cylinder seal. 2 animals? Very poor and worn specimen.
1420	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Terracotta. 2 human figures slaying a lion, rampant, facing right, between them. Illegible remains of a 2 line inscription.
14200	(none)	(none)	(none)	Jar-sealing. Incised sign(?) HC.2013
1421	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Terracotta. Rough incised designs of a palmette, and leaves and branches.
14216	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Shell. [drawing]
1422	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Terracotta. With 2 incised bars, otherwise plain. A slight depression in each end; pierced.
14226	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell. Theriomachy. Rampant. Decayed. Gazelle & goat(?)
1423	(none)	(none)	B15596	Stamp seal. Square button in terracotta with rude incised device of a bird standing among plants. [drawing]
1424	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone seal. Black four-sided. 2 wide and 2 narrow sides, pierced like a cylinder seal. One of wide sides has figure of a god standing on the back of an animal, the corresponding side a bird. On the narrow sides are designs. [drawing]
14270	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. bird-headed men and rampant lions crossed.
14293	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White shell. Rampant lions crossed.
1431	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black clay (?) 2 men slaying lion (?), broken.
14319	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers: Banquet scene: bird-headed men sucking drink out of a tube from a large vase.
14327	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. Bird-headed men fighting rampant: one of the men grasps a ram(?) which is head downwards by the tail.
1437	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Light grey stone. 2 registers: upper, 3 seated figures, female, with plant in jar between 2 of them; lower register, scene with ibex(?)
1438	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. Faint traces of figures; much worn.
14432A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal pendant. Limestone. Cut as an animal possibly a hedgehog(?) and engraved in flat side with 2 gazelles or antelopes (?) Perforated vertically for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
14435A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze object. Flat seal? Buoy shaped. [drawing 1:1]
14436A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Flat seal. Chalcedony. Mauve. Faceted and suspended by a copper hook. Typical Persian period stamp seal. Engraved with design of a bearded deity wearing a cap and a long coat hand raised over a horse on the back of which is a pedestal supporting a crescent in a hole attribute and star.