Stamp Seals
This category includes seals that are square or rectangular in shape.
This category includes seals that are square or rectangular in shape. They are created from any type of material. They are used by pressing the inscribed side into a mud or clay object.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 17797 | 32-40-345 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Shell. One side flattened and rough representation of animal drilled and scratched on. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17833 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statuette of reclining dog (?). Calcite. Originally, colored bright red (some of color left) with eyes filled in with black. The beast has a ruff and a bushy tail. A hole is pierced from the top of the back to the stomach. On the under side a seal cutting (much perished) showing animals mostly cut with the drill. |
| 17835A | 32-40-308 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two lion's heads. Silhouetted in profile. White calcite, originally painted red, but the color gone: both are really stamp seals with rough designs drill-cut on the flat lower surface. Both are pierced for suspension from the top of the head to the bottom of the mane. [drawing] | |
| 17835B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two lion's heads. Silhouetted in profile. White calcite, originally painted red, but the color gone: both are really stamp seals with rough designs drill-cut on the flat lower surface. Both are pierced for suspension from the top of the head to the bottom of the mane. [drawing] |
| 17923 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18105 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scarab seal of glazed frit, the glaze perished. Highly conventionalized: below, a goat? [drawing] |
| 18167 | 32-40-320 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Of dark and light grey pebble. Rectangular, with slightly convex top, pierced longitudinally. Rough design on base, of a man with his arms raised and his legs twisted up in an impossible fashion (?) [drawing] |
| 18249 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp of dark steatite. Perhaps a jeweller's die. A god standing on the back of a lion. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18284 | 33-35-170 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Facetted conical: chalcedony. Persian type. Two standing figures worshipping before an altar: crescent above. |
| 18285 | 33-35-80 | (none) | (none) | Signet ring. Copper. With oval bezel on which an engraved design, (corroded). | |
| 18337 | 33-35-169 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, with convex tip, pierced horizontally. Subject: 2 animals, a third animal and an unrecognizable object: engraved mostly with the circular drill. |
| 18341 | 33-35-164 | (none) | (none) | Animal's body. Grey steatite. Body of couchant animal, the hind quarters complete, in fairly high relief: the front leg only sketched: the stone is rounded off at the shoulder so that there never was a head. The body is flat and bears two engraved signs thus. [drawing] |
| 18354 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Chalcedony. High flattened conical type a worshipper upon a disk set on a staff. |
| 18361 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. White marble. Convex above: oval, flat below with a crude design of drilled spots. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18442 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Button type: pierced horizontally grey steatite. In the convex top are 6 shallow holes drilled, partly to take inlay: on the flat base is a roughly engraved subject. |
| 18448 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Limestone. Conical type. Subject: a standing bull, with crescent above. |
| 18458 | 33-35-81 | (none) | (none) | Copper finger-ring. With circular bezel, engraved. | |
| 18928 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey hematite. Square, with tubular handle. A seated figure to whom an attendant offers a spouted libation vase. Very curious cutting, especially in the faces. |
| 19579 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Square, with pierced pyramidical top. A lizard and 2 scorpions. |
| 19974 | 35-1-18 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. [drawing 1:1] |
| 19975 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18121B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. Agate ball and carnelian balls and double conoids; chalcedony double conoid; lapis, jasper agate and carnelian date-shaped; jasper (?) double conoid; [B] amethyst scaraboid; [A] steatite flattened balls; glazed frit discoid; [C-D] 2 glazed frit thick discoids with criss-cross on one side: [E] small glazed scaraboid with bungled heiroglyphs: [F] pebble scaraboid. Roughly incised thus: [drawing] [G] carnelian domical ovoid roughly engraved with figure of deer (?); [H] small puzuzu head in turquoise: [I] chalcedony seal, with Persian figure of a man standing in prayer. [drawing] [J] Also: a copper fibula. [drawing] |
| 14444B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Glazed. Persian. |
| 16767B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads: glass paste: balls, rings, lentoids - a few fluted balls. Also. [B-D] 3 scaraboid seals glazed with quasi hieroglyphic signs, and [E-F] 2 Puzuzu heads. |
| 16767C | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads: glass paste: balls, rings, lentoids - a few fluted balls. Also. [B-D] 3 scaraboid seals glazed with quasi hieroglyphic signs, and [E-F] 2 Puzuzu heads. |
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