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. 

Objects: Cylinder Seals Export: JSON - XML - CSV Clay Seals and Sealings

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
18919 35-1-22, 35-1-22 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Green steatite (?) with copper caps. Two standing gods shaking hands: two men killing a kneeling prisoner: two columns of inscription supported by an animal. Good work.
18922 35-1-16 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. A god driving a chariot drawn by a winged gryphon(?); between the wings rises a goddess armed with a bow, in front of it is another god. One column of inscription. Inscription: Ur-gis-me-e (C.J.G.)
18923 35-1-2 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. A hero, and fighting animals. Archaic: very much worn and defaced.
18924 35-1-17 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Brown steatite. Two heroes fighting animals.
18925 35-1-8 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Very dark steatite. Hero fighting heraldically crossed lions and bulls.
18927 35-1-10 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity and 2 worshippers and goat.
18946 35-1-4 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Animals fighting; two lions heraldically crossed and two gazelles.
18947 35-1-11 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. A spread eagle grasping two wild goats.
18948 35-1-13, 35-1-13 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Standing god with two worshippers; two columns of inscription. Inscription: Ilu-su(?)-ir, son of Dudu (C.J.G.)
18974 35-1-9, 35-1-9 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. One seated and three standing figures: two columns of inscription. Inscription: Lugal-ma (C.J.G.)
18976 35-1-5 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Light yellowish stone. 2 heroes fighting animals.
18981 35-1-21 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Green stone. 2 heroes fighting lions.
18994 35-1-14 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two hunters fighting a lion.
19075 35-1-7 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two registers: in each, a row of animals, the rows inverted.
19191 35-1-1 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. With rings of steatite inset at the two ends. Heroes fighting animals. (somewhat decayed).
19230 35-1-3 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Fightling animals and a spread eagle over a tree.
19486 35-1-19 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Design of men ovals horizontally placed
234 (none) (none) B15272 Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor.
6002 (none) (none) B16287 Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Below, figure Gilgamesh? prostrate above, offering to Ea, heraldic animals, etc. c. BC 2300. ? Brick. VII
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.
6065 (none) (none) B16300 Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 3 grooves in middle divider scene, seated god and introduction of votary from 4 swans on lower half. About BC 2700. E.
6085 35-1-610 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Nannar, swan, minor god, votary, swan and scorpion. About BC 2400. E.
6091 (none) (none) B16311 Cylinder seal. Black basalt. Nannar, minor god and votary. E.
6106 (none) (none) B16296, B16296 Cylinder seal. White frit. Unpierced. Inscribed: Lugal-nu-zu aon of E-te-nin-ka ilSin. E.
6122 (none) (none) B16282 Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Broken at one end, subject mostly obliterated.

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