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)
18157	(none)	1932,1008.176	(none)	Cylinder seal. Frit, once glazed but glaze all perished. Crude design: a hunter, with birds in the field: triangle border.
19870	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Frit. A kneeling archer shooting at a star (?) x619
16145	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Frit. Criss-cross incisions
7553	(none)	1928,1009.16	(none)	Cylinder seal. Frit. Grey. Stag, 2 stars, upright pole? Spear sticking vertically in ground. Persian.
17920	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Frit. Man shooting gazelle.
18170	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Frit. Over glazed = glaze now perished. Wild goat and tree.
17761	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Frit. Triangle pattern border at top; tree; eyes or fish; man with uplifted arm and goat.
16329	(none)	1931,1010.48	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glass paste. Standing male(?) figure, pair of gazelles(?) Sacred tree(?) and above guilloche pattern.
7518	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glass. Bleached white. Geometric designs, criss cross and lozenge in four panels. Found with mace heads U7516 U7517.
18174	(none)	1932,1008.168	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit -- the glaze perished. Rampant goat (?) and dragon.
18173	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit, glaze much perished. Winged demon before 2 standards -- a pair of horns and a cone respectively on a pole.
18179	32-40-331	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit, glaze perished. Kid and palm tree.
12690	30-12-47	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Blue-green. Winged dragon, rampant lion. Star.
12688	(none)	1929,1017.365	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Bluish green. Inscribed. 7 columns of inscription and a remaining portion of seal a heavily draped standing figure right hand upraised in salutation engraving of head has flaked away.
12689	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Bluish green. Inscribed. Broken and much decayed.
16124	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Engraved with design of serpent and standing figure.
17958	(none)	1932,1008.169	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Kneeling man shooting many antlered gazelle.
18191	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed frit: glaze perished. Two flying geese.
6418	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed pottery. Hero fighting with a winged dragon. B. Neo-Babylonian.
7912	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Glazed. Originally green, bleached white. Winged dragon with long upright tail. Three snakes standing vertically. Two incised lines run round cylinder close to circumference at top and two similarly at bottom.
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.
6591	(none)	1927,0527.196	(none)	Cylinder seal. Gray steatite. Inscribed. Lu-dingir-ra son of Lugal-dugga. Worshipper and standing god. About BC 2000.
11418	30-12-29	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green Jasper. Two men fighting 2 lions, the latter heraldically crossed, and an inscription in 2 lines. Inscription: UrdGIS-BIL-ga-mes dub-sar sumu Urd KA-DI = Ur-Gilgames scribe, son of Ur-KA-DI. HC.1928/9-2.
16398	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green steatite. 2 standing figures engaged in salutation. Between them a palm rising from a high stand.
16179	31-43-28	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green steatite. Presentation scene: enthroned god and two standing figures.