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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6253 | (none) | (none) | B16290 | Cylinder seal. Grey limestone? Unpierced. Gilgamesh fighting with the bull. About BC 2500. | |
| 7121 | (none) | (none) | B16289 | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Palm branch between 2 worshippers, who hold hand upraised. Attributes: Crescent moon, Rampant Lion. 2400 BC. E. | |
| 7118 | (none) | (none) | B16288 | Cylinder seal. White shell. 2 registers. Upper register. Spend eagle between 2 gazelles - standing club. Below. Net. Before 3000 BC. E. | |
| 6002 | (none) | (none) | B16287 | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Below, figure Gilgamesh? prostrate above, offering to Ea, heraldic animals, etc. c. BC 2300. ? Brick. VII | |
| 6160 | (none) | (none) | B16286, B16286 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Not fully paved. Lion attacked by two men 2 lines of defaced inscription. About BC 2100. Required for Vol. VII written. | |
| 6982 | (none) | (none) | B16285 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Scene of worship. Votary introduced by minor god to seated Shamash. Attributes Tripod. About BC 2400. 2300 BC? | |
| 6059 | (none) | (none) | B16284, B16284 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Reception scene, Nannar and minor go and votary, 2 lines of inscription. E. 3rd Dynasty of Ur. | |
| 6752 | (none) | (none) | B16283 | Cylinder seal. White crystal. Plain. E. | |
| 6122 | (none) | (none) | B16282 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Broken at one end, subject mostly obliterated. | |
| 1706 | (none) | (none) | B15594 | Cylinder seal. Light brown stone. With traces of archaic design of fishes. | |
| 1268 | (none) | (none) | B15593, B15593 | Cylinder seal in 2 registers: above, scene of "introduction" to a goddess. A woman is led forward by a female protecting deity. In lower register, 3 swans. Inscription: Ahat-ilti. Assat Lugal-usum-gal. (cf.U1267) | |
| 1267 | (none) | (none) | B15592, B15592 | Cylinder seal; scene of "introduction" to seated god facing right, with star and crescent above. Inscription: Lugal-asum-gal (cf. U.1268) mar Ur-sul. Su-du-a. | |
| 1734 | (none) | (none) | B15590 | Cylinder seal. grey stone. Broken. Upper part only of introduction scene with crescent moon in front of god. P. | |
| 1733 | (none) | (none) | B15589 | Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Very scratchily engraved on one side only with design of 2 men fighting a lion. P. [drawing] | |
| 1054 | (none) | (none) | B15276 | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Very small. | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B15275 | Unknown | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B15274 | Unknown | |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | B15273 | Unknown | |
| 234 | (none) | (none) | B15272 | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor. | |
| 685 | (none) | (none) | B15249 | Cylinder seal. Back steatite. Subject: a seated god approached by 2 supplicants: above, the sun: the composition is divided up by a roughly rendered rope(?) pattern which coils above the god and first supplicant and below the second.[drawing] | |
| 775 | (none) | (none) | B15248 | Carnelian cylinder seal. Archer in chariot driving rt. shoots at kneeling archer l. Late style with a good deal of drill point work, but not bad. ? 8th century. | |
 | 20 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite Greenish-grey. Seated figure of a divinity rt, before whom 5 standing figures. |
| (none) | (none) | 1923,1110.182 | (none) | (none) |
| 54 | (none) | 1923,1110.190 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Engraved with scene of worshipper being introduced to a god standing in front of a gate. |
| 55 | (none) | 1923,1110.191 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Broken in half and chipped down one side. Scene: 3 figures in a row advancing l[eft]. Found with beads round neck of body in larnax burial. |
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