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.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
1418	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black stone. Half. Portions of 2 human figures and an uncertain object.
1419	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Terracotta. Broken. Rough incised device apparently of 2 animals rampant on either side of a tree.
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.
1421	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Terracotta. Rough incised designs of a palmette, and leaves and branches.
1422	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Terracotta. With 2 incised bars, otherwise plain. A slight depression in each end; pierced.
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]
1431	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black clay (?) 2 men slaying lion (?), broken.
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.
1487	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Crystal. Four-winged deity carrying a sickle and facing him a winged bull erect; a cross between their feet. In text: see U.1359 etc.
1510	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal. Black stone. Conical; deity(?) and crescent on pole.
1518	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of baked clay cylinder of Nabonidus. Fragments of 5 lines from column I of inscription duplicate of U.1111, etc.
1522	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark stone. Half. With trace of an archaic inscription.
1523	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. One side much damaged. Device is in 2 registers. Introduction scene above and crude design of swans below. Inscription: ahat-i-li-lugal-usum-(gal)-la PA. For design and inscription compare U.1268 and U.1267.
1544	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing deity (Marduk) and seated deity with altar between and tree at back.
1545	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black stone. With figures faintly distinguishable.
1546	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White stone. Human figure and lion(?)
1560A	(none)	1924,0920.243	(none)	[A-B] Two fragments of large baked clay cylinder of Nabonidus: containing parts of column I & II of the inscription on cylinder K.1688 in the British Museum. These fragments possibly belong to that cylinder.
1560B	(none)	1924,0920.244	(none)	[A-B] Two fragments of large baked clay cylinder of Nabonidus: containing parts of column I & II of the inscription on cylinder K.1688 in the British Museum. These fragments possibly belong to that cylinder.
1628	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed with scene of presentation to goddess.
1631	(none)	(none)	(none)	Conical seal. Clay. Surface of green glaze; with traces of incised design. Not with photo. [drawing 1:1]
1635	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of baked clay cylinder of Nabonidus. Duplicate of U.1111, etc., containing last 12 lines of column I.
1636	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. With roughly engraved device of introduction ceremony, and inscription of 2 lines. Ur-dub: dumu Ur-d.Kal
1646	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Clay, with device of eagle, lance, etc.
1647	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Blue stone. Irregularly cylindrical, with no trace of device.