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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1223 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Black steatite cylinder seal with device god facing right separated from worshipper and an introducing god by figures of a sitting dog (left) and scorpion (right). Over the god's raised left hand is the crescent. Inscribed: d.Sanas S.a-a |
| 1224 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell cylinder seal, broken and in bad condition. The device appears to show two confronting winged animals. |
| 16019 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite cylinder seal. Geme(?) -d. Nungal son of Ur-babi(-baga?) HC.30/I.5. UET 8/2 (Hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| (none) | (none) | 1923,1110.182 | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 30-12-42 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| (none) | 35-1-23 | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| 1649B | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| 7953A | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| 12112A | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 Cylinder seals & copper pin. (A) Steatite greenish: 2 registers; above, deer on mountains; below, men fighting animals. Poor cutting. (B) Shell, decayed. Figures & animals. Hopeless no photograph (C) Copper pin plain. |
| 12112B | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 Cylinder seals & copper pin. (A) Steatite greenish: 2 registers; above, deer on mountains; below, men fighting animals. Poor cutting. (B) Shell, decayed. Figures & animals. Hopeless no photograph (C) Copper pin plain. |
| 17695A | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 Cylinder seals glazed frit. (A) Man hunting gazelle; tree. (B) Man hunting gazelle; tree, and star above. (C) Apparently the same motif. -- All bordered with same triangle pattern motif. |
| 17695B | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 Cylinder seals glazed frit. (A) Man hunting gazelle; tree. (B) Man hunting gazelle; tree, and star above. (C) Apparently the same motif. -- All bordered with same triangle pattern motif. |
| 17695C | (none) | (none) | (none) | 3 Cylinder seals glazed frit. (A) Man hunting gazelle; tree. (B) Man hunting gazelle; tree, and star above. (C) Apparently the same motif. -- All bordered with same triangle pattern motif. |
| 1189 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Black steatite cylinder seal with rather careless design of the "introduction" scene, the god facing right, with crescent before him. |
| 1187 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Black steatite cylinder-seal with device of "introduction" to a god, who faces right with crescent over him. Inscribed: - IM-ti-dam; mar I-li-mi. |
| 2814 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Broken Cylinder Seal. Carnelian. Assyrian influence about BC 700. Tree of life and genius. [drawing] |
| 6200 | (none) | 1927,0527.197 | (none) | Broken cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Scene of worshipping. To dNin-shubur, the messenger of heaven About BC 2100. |
| 13054 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Carnelian bead. Fragment of a cylinder seal with a presentation scene and inscription. Three figures end below waist and 2 signs for ilu alone remain. |
| 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. | |
| 16805 | (none) | 1931,1010.74 | (none) | Carnelian scaraboid. Phoenician inscription. [drawing] |
| 12974 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay cylinder. Fragment. 1st sign only of ten lines. |
| 2757 | (none) | 1927,1003.9 | (none) | Clay cylindrical column of Sin-balatsuigbi. Copy of inscriptions of Bur-Sin recording the foundation of 3 statues Ivth column in Semitic: Copy of bricks from? Ur work of Bur-Sin king of Ur, (which) when searching for the plan lines of Egish-shirgal, Sinbalatsuigbi, vice regent of Ur (has found). Nabushumiddina son of Idin-an-ni-u. priest (kal-lu) of Sin, for inspection has singled and inscribed. On the top: (In front) of the shrine of Enlil. H.C. (A15, p384) | |
| 11490B | 30-12-50 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin & cylinder seal. Copper pin plain, tang head (tang) broken), to which was attached a small white shell cylinder seal with design of a palm tree on one side of which 2 rampant lions, on the other apparently a winged bull (?) the surface very much decayed. | |
| 9092B | (none) | (none) | B17490 | Copper pin [A]. Thickened head and short tang. Onto the stem is corroded a small lapis cylinder seal [B](engraved conoid with animal figures) which must have hung from the hole in the stem of the pin. [Type I] | |
| 18913 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cyl;inder seal. Dark steatite, grey. Seated Ningal, 2 standing figures, a bird and a scorpion, etc. |
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