Cylinder Seals
This category includes seals that are cylindrical in shape.
This category includes seals that are cylindrical in shape. These are made from various materials, and have various scenes carved into them. They are rolled onto a mud or clay object to created an impression.
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Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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![]() | 141 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Gilgamesh (?) and lion, sacred tree and another human figure. Poor work and much worn. |
![]() | 1410 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Hematite. Introduction to a god seated facing right. Inscription in 2 lines obliterated. |
![]() | 1411 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black marble (?) Eagle with outspread wings clutching the backs of 2 rampant ibexes which turn their heads backward. Between the heads of the 2 creatures is a palm-tree or symbol. No inscription. |
![]() | 1412 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Bluish-black marble. Introduction to a god, seated right, with crescent moon before him. Space for inscription left blank.. |
![]() | 1413 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal, broken. With device of the owner being led forward, facing left, to the presence of a deity who stands with left leg raised (upon a mountain?) and holds a spear in left hand. Traces only of inscription. |
![]() | 1414 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black stone. Introduction to a god seated right with crescent moon before him. Space for inscription blank. |
![]() | 1415 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black stone. 2 human figures slaying a lion which leaps between them, facing right. No inscription. |
![]() | 1416 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black stone. Small. With indistinct device of a human figure, striding right, followed by two others with hands clasped and upheld. No inscription. |
![]() | 1417 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black stone. 2 human figures slaying a lion, which leaps between them facing right. |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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(?) |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 14443A | (none) | 1930,1213.130 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Calcite. Transluscent. 2 registers. Above: Banquet scene. Seated male figure sucking drink end of a tube from a bowl which rests on a stand. Next: a male figure sedentary and seated female. Behind the seated female two attendants. Below: Seated male accosted by a standing figure presents an offering. Table with offerings on it, attendant stands against table stand attendant extracting liquid from a two legged jar. |
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