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)
496 (none) (none) B15255 Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
495 (none) (none) (none) Scarab. White steatite. Inscr. [drawing]
15706 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Glazed. Engraved with ichthyomorphic? designs? [drawing 1:1]
15793 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1]
15191 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Lapis lazuli paste. Vulture; Asiatic sphinx; Neb sign.
16120 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Dark green glazed frit. Engraved with crescent moon and squatting man. [drawing]
16210 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Dark steatite. Design thus. [drawing 1:1]
14444B (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Glazed. Persian.
15807 (none) 1930,1213.144 (none) Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1]
16176 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Lapis lazuli. Palm tree.
15493 (none) 1930,1213.142 (none) Scaraboid seal. Now dull yellow. glazed. Incised with design of sphinx. [drawing 1:1]
16209 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Paste (bleached white). Design thus. [drawing 1:1]
16113 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Yellow glazed frit. [drawing 1:1]
497 (none) (none) B15250 Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
10153 (none) (none) (none) Seal Lapis lazuli Lentoid shaped 3 registers Men and gazelles
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
14432A (none) (none) (none) Seal pendant. Limestone. Cut as an animal possibly a hedgehog(?) and engraved in flat side with 2 gazelles or antelopes (?) Perforated vertically for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1401 (none) (none) (none) Seal(?) in form of small ring. Green glaze faience. [drawing 1:1]
6866 (none) (none) (none) Seal. Black steatite. In form of rectangular block with cylindrical handle on flat side - scorpion. B
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.
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.
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.
1115 (none) 1924,0920.179 (none) Seal. Black burnt clay. Incised lines on face. [drawing]
6935 (none) 1927,0527.207 (none) Seal. Black steatite. Cut on flat base. Pyramid shaped. Rough work. Chair? Scorpion above or animal? Before 3000BC. E. [drawing]
6436B (none) (none) (none) Seal. Black steatite. Helmet shaped. Pierced at sides. Flate base for seal impression. Worshipper, altar and crescent. Neo-Babylonian. B.

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Scaraboid Seals - Seal Rings