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)
16759A 31-43-73 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs.
16759B 31-43-73 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs.
16759C 31-43-73 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs.
16759D 31-43-73 (none) (none) 4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs.
16760 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Quartz. Shaped like a flattened truncated cone with base slightly convex and 4 sides.
16761 (none) 1931,1010.271 (none) Silver finger Ring. With oval bezel-engraved.
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.
16767D (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.
16783A (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 seals. 2 scaraboids. (A). 1 frit scaraboid with scorpion engraved; (B). 1 mottled marble(?) with gazelle engraved. (C). 1 brownish stone stamp seal: star engraved.
16783B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 seals. 2 scaraboids. (A). 1 frit scaraboid with scorpion engraved; (B). 1 mottled marble(?) with gazelle engraved. (C). 1 brownish stone stamp seal: star engraved.
16783C (none) 1931,1010.77 (none) [A-C] 3 seals. 2 scaraboids. (A). 1 frit scaraboid with scorpion engraved; (B). 1 mottled marble(?) with gazelle engraved. (C). 1 brownish stone stamp seal: star engraved.
16796F (none) (none) (none) [A-E] 5 Puzuzu heads. Glazed frit. [F] 1 glazed scaraboid bead with quasi-hieroglyphic sign.
16805 (none) 1931,1010.74 (none) Carnelian scaraboid. Phoenician inscription. [drawing]
16927G 31-43-7 (none) (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
17011 31-43-5 (none) (none) Terracotta stamp seal. Circular. Perforated top. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17024 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Mottled grey. Hero between a pair of antelopes? Rampant very faintly outlined. [drawing]
17028 31-43-69 (none) (none) Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Oval. Upper side convex and umbilical antelope (?) and a bird on its back [drawing 1:1]
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.
17044B 31-43-218 (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.
17044C 31-43-219 (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.
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.
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.
17044F 31-43-220 (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.
17100 31-43-67 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Black. Conoid. Bearded male figure holding an offering before a throne (?) or altar with a high back in which is planted a spear. Emblems. Fish and crescent moon. [drawing]

Child Terms

Scaraboid Seals - Seal Rings