Scaraboid Seals

This category includes seals that are shaped like Scarab beetles. They are usually made of stone with inscribed beetle features on the top and scenes on the bottom.  The inscribed scenes on the bottom are then pressed into mud/clay sealings. 

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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)
	15793	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1]
	15706	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Glazed. Engraved with ichthyomorphic? designs? [drawing 1:1]
	495	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scarab. White steatite. Inscr. [drawing]
	496	(none)	(none)	B15255	Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
	17355	31-43-71	(none)	(none)	Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA?
	17941	(none)	1932,1008.180	(none)	Scarab. Frit, formerly glazed, now perished. [drawing 1:1]
	18105	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scarab seal of glazed frit, the glaze perished. Highly conventionalized: below, a goat? [drawing]
	494	(none)	1923,1110.196	(none)	Lapis lazuli seal. Scaraboid. Subject [drawing]
	6299	(none)	1927,0527.206	(none)	Cylinder seal. Flat on one side hemispherical on the other glazed pottery scarab on the flat a crouching dragon (?) Egypt in influence. About BC 500.
	16805	(none)	1931,1010.74	(none)	Carnelian scaraboid. Phoenician inscription. [drawing]
	20041C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. [A] A large collection, mostly carnelian but also other stones[?], of various forms together with a [B] steatite pendant thus [drawing] and a [C] paste scarab inscribed thus [drawing] [D] and a copper fibula (broken) thus [drawing] . Said to have been found with nos 20042-7.
	16759D	31-43-73	(none)	(none)	4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs.

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