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

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
(none) (none) 1923,1110.199 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1919,1011.5122 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1919,1011.5121 (none) (none)
(none) 31-17-257 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 33-35-91 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 33-35-92 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 31-17-169 (none) (none) (none)
17421A 31-43-212 (none) (none) 2 signet rings. Silver. [A] One with circular bezel. [B] One with oval bezel.
17421B (none) (none) (none) 2 signet rings. Silver. [A] One with circular bezel. [B] One with oval bezel.
16759D 31-43-73 (none) (none) 4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs.
490 (none) (none) (none) Agate seal. Oblong, oval, topped. Subject [drawing]
492 (none) 1923,1110.198 (none) Agate seal. Oval topped. Subject, sphinx. [drawing]
488 (none) (none) (none) Agate seal. Same shape as U.486. subject [drawing]
491 (none) 1923,1110.197 (none) Amethystine quartz seal. Pointed on top, like U.486, Subject, sphinx couchant.[drawing]
15806 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Carnelian stamp seal. Engraved with figure of a squatting sphinx. [drawing 1:1]
16190 31-43-8 (none) (none) Amulet. Shell. Flattened double conoid. Engraved with design of snaked(?)
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]
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.
6535 (none) (none) (none) Bottle neck seal. Clay. Warriors fighting bulls.
16362 (none) 1931,1010.272 (none) Bronze finger ring with oval-shaped bezel.
14435A (none) (none) (none) Bronze object. Flat seal? Buoy shaped. [drawing 1:1]
789 (none) (none) (none) Bronze seal. Engraved with a lion walking l. Persian style. [drawing 1:1]
9265 (none) 1928,1009.59 (none) Button seal Black shale? One side flat, the other convex On the convex side 4 sets of concentric rings Pl. 62 vol. IV L.BM. 120576
16397 31-43-74 (none) (none) Button seal. Baked clay. Glazed. Bleached white. Stamped with scorpion. Dome-shaped bulbous dome stamped with 4 concentric circles. [drawing]
17342 (none) 1931,1010.14 (none) Button seal. Polished stone. Mottled. Fragment.
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Scaraboid Seals - Seal Rings