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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 2995 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Pottery. Neo-Babylonian/Persian Period [drawing] |
| 3323 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal? Steatite. Unusual crescent shape. Running wild bull among tree. [drawing] |
| 6066 | (none) | (none) | B16292 | Seal. Black steatite. Triangular shape scorpion and? Lizard? About BC 2600. E. | |
| 6436B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. Black steatite. Helmet shaped. Pierced at sides. Flate base for seal impression. Worshipper, altar and crescent. Neo-Babylonian. B. |
| 6500 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. Alabaster : rectangular. Flat one side, pyramid shaped on the other. Early Sumerian Figure, seated on an [reference to X shaped miniature sketch] shaped throne, and holding a drinking cup [miniature sketch in form of inverted triangle]- He is bare headed. Before 3000 BC? B. |
| 6535 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bottle neck seal. Clay. Warriors fighting bulls. |
| 6737 | (none) | (none) | B16210, B16210 | Fragment of steatite stamp for bricks. (E)-gu-bu?. About BC 2700. E. |
| 6866 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. Black steatite. In form of rectangular block with cylindrical handle on flat side - scorpion. B |
| 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. | |
| 6910 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. Transluscent stone. Orange. Fragmentary. Hemispherical on one side, flat on the other. Scorpion. B. [drawing] |
| 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. |
| 7066 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. Oblong flat one side, convex the other, ends just wide enough fro usual seal hole. Greenish jadeite, on flat side 5 birds. Before 3000BC. B. |
| 7662 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. Double conoid with flattened sides. Incised markings on one side. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7663 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Sard, pale blue. Winged insect? |
| 7899 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Steatite. Black. 2 birds reversed and a scorpion? |
| 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. | |
| 8424 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal Limestone Grey Rectangular in section Rounded perforated handle on horizontal face. [drawing] |
| 8685 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, button type. Design: below, a bull. Above. | |
| 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 | |
| 10153 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal Lapis lazuli Lentoid shaped 3 registers Men and gazelles |
| 11181 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Handle type, rectangular. Scorpion. [drawing 1:1] |
| 11449 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Square with tubular handle, one corner anciently broken. Scene: a worshipper before Ningal. |
| 12796 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Carnelian. Crescent moon and great bead (?). Persian period. [drawing 1:1] |
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