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.  

Objects: Stamp 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)
1044 (none) (none) B15271 Button seal. White quartzite, oval top. Roughly engraved with date. [drawing]
1423 (none) (none) B15596 Stamp seal. Square button in terracotta with rude incised device of a bird standing among plants. [drawing]
16120 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Dark green glazed frit. Engraved with crescent moon and squatting man. [drawing]
17421B (none) (none) (none) 2 signet rings. Silver. [A] One with circular bezel. [B] One with oval bezel.
487 (none) (none) B15256 Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [referencing drawin] [drawing]
496 (none) (none) B15255 Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
497 (none) (none) B15250 Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
6066 (none) (none) B16292 Seal. Black steatite. Triangular shape scorpion and? Lizard? About BC 2600. E.
6737 (none) (none) B16210, B16210 Fragment of steatite stamp for bricks. (E)-gu-bu?. About BC 2700. E.
6872 (none) (none) B16315 Seal. Stone. Convex on one side, flat on the other. Round incisions on the flat side. Pierced. Before 3000 BC. B.
6988 (none) (none) B16302 Seal. Amethyst. Blue-violet. Flat on one side, convex on the other but not completely rounded, apex top. Hawk with spread wings, legs crossed in middle of breast. Neo-Babylonian. E.
7027 (none) (none) B16301 Seal. White steatite. Round. Hole perforated horizontally through hemispherical sides. Flat on one side, hemispherical on the other. Hemispherical side has 3 grooves 0002 wide in all bisecting it and concentric circles decoration, 4 in all, 2 on either side of the bisecting line. On flat side in middle enthroned Nannar both hands supporting a post with a crescent moon which is also supported by a bull-man. Behind the throne a similar bull-man also supporting a crescent moon on a post, and below the throne a bull with high horns, crescent shaped. Bull-men (Eabani) are ithyphallic. Hair on legs of Eabani. E. Before 3000 BC.
7916 (none) (none) B16906 Stamp flat seal. One side convex. Calcite. Greyish. Above a reclining beast, possibly a jackal? and below a second beast with big head.
7917 (none) (none) B16905 Flat seal. Hemispherical. Calcite. Greyish. Animal? design.
9976 (none) (none) B16858 Seal White marble Oval: rounded top, flat base on which figures of animals roughly done with a drill [drawing] 1:1
13722 31-17-24 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Translucent white quartzite(?) oval, flat below & rounded above: on the flat base, traces of an animal design mostly done with a drill-point, in dots joined up by rough engraving; the design really unrecognisable now. [drawing 1:1]
16211 31-43-1 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Pink limestone. In the form of a recumbent calf; on the flat back a rough design of 2 animals done with drill-holes and engraved lines. This is an early Sumerian piece which is found ina Persian period grave, and must have been an antiquity. [drawing 1:1]
17121A 31-43-10 (none) (none) Seals. Two steatite plaques, rectangular and oblong, flat on one side and gabled on the other, the gabled side pierced perhaps for a metal ring handle. A) [drawing 1:1] thus, with rough design of a scorpion. B) smaller but apparently with the same design (much worn)
17340 31-43-11 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1]
16653 31-43-154 (none) (none) Flat amethyst seal, and 5 carnelian beads.
16408 31-43-2 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Circular, convex above of striped black and white marble, design almost entirely perished; worked mostly with the drill. [drawing 1:1]
16198A 31-43-213 (none) (none) [A-B] 2 bronze [bronze is struck through and silver written next to it] finger rings. (A) one with circular bezel. Phil.
17044D 31-43-215 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 signet rings. [A-C] 3 plain finger rings [of] copper and [D] 1 plain silver ring. Signet rings have circular bezels.
17044A 31-43-216 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 signet rings. [A-C] 3 plain finger rings [of] copper and [D] 1 plain silver ring. Signet rings have circular bezels.
17044E 31-43-217 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 signet rings. [A-C] 3 plain finger rings [of] copper and [D] 1 plain silver ring. Signet rings have circular bezels.
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Child Terms

Scaraboid Seals - Seal Rings