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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 17341 | 31-43-76 | (none) | (none) | Button seal. Steatite(?). White. Fragment. Half only remains. Animals. With a boss on the upper side perforated for suspension. |
| 16181 | (none) | 1931,1010.13 | (none) | Button seal. Steatite. Incised cross on flat side. Convex side also had triple cross incisions and incised circles. Over part of the seal is a white surface that has the appearance of a glaze. Seal has been perforated transversely through the convex side. The white surface is visible also the inside of the perforated hole. [drawing] |
| 1044 | (none) | (none) | B15271 | Button seal. White quartzite, oval top. Roughly engraved with date. [drawing] | |
| 16805 | (none) | 1931,1010.74 | (none) | Carnelian scaraboid. Phoenician inscription. [drawing] |
| 499 | (none) | (none) | B16199 | Carnelian seal-stone, shaped as U.486. Subject, couchant sphinx. Strung up on U.500 E [drawing] |
| 486 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Chalcedony seal [drawing] |
| 489 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [drawing] |
| 487 | (none) | (none) | B15256 | Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [referencing drawin] [drawing] | |
| 411 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Chalcedony seal. Very roughly engraved with design of two fish. [drawing 1:1] |
| 79 | (none) | 1923,1110.40 | (none) | Clay brick-stamps, Fr. of with figs in bold relief. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14791 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay seal? With cruciform pattern. |
| 13985 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay seal? Apparently button stamp seal with numerous confused and badly cut signs. Nothing legible (except possibly Ses-ki and Kur ?). |
| 2856 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cone seal. Glazed pottery. Egyptian style. Neo-Babylonian period. [drawing] |
| 1631 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Conical seal. Clay. Surface of green glaze; with traces of incised design. Not with photo. [drawing 1:1] |
| 160 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Conoid seal. Black steatite on base. A roughly sketched design almost recognizable. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18458 | 33-35-81 | (none) | (none) | Copper finger-ring. With circular bezel, engraved. | |
| 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. |
| 16653 | 31-43-154 | (none) | (none) | Flat amethyst seal, and 5 carnelian beads. | |
| 8424 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal Limestone Grey Rectangular in section Rounded perforated handle on horizontal face. [drawing] |
| 16638 | (none) | 1931,1010.62 | (none) | Flat seal. Ovoid. White limestone. Scorpion? and 5 circles. [drawing] |
| 16165 | (none) | 1931,1010.75 | (none) | Flat seal. Brownish stone. 1 end missing. Ovoid. Figure standing before an alter(?) Attibute? Sun? |
| 12796 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Carnelian. Crescent moon and great bead (?). Persian period. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14436A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Chalcedony. Mauve. Faceted and suspended by a copper hook. Typical Persian period stamp seal. Engraved with design of a bearded deity wearing a cap and a long coat hand raised over a horse on the back of which is a pedestal supporting a crescent in a hole attribute and star. |
| 7915 | (none) | 1928,1009.58 | (none) | Flat seal. Convex on one side. Hole perforated through top for attachment. Whorl design on flat side. Yellowish marble with red streaks. |
| 16747 | 31-43-75 | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Greenish grey steatite. Circular. Upper side convex and decorated with 4 circles, and 3 parallel incisions. Under side a man with a bowl resting against back of neck over shoulders balanced by each arm-suspended from it are 3 water skins, and to one side of the man a stool(?). Pair of stars. [drawing] obv. for rev. see photo. |
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