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)
14435A (none) (none) (none) Bronze object. Flat seal? Buoy shaped. [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.
14791 (none) (none) (none) Clay seal? With cruciform pattern.
15179 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Conical. Chalcedony. Persian. Engraved with design of winged monster: bearded male head with conical hat, bulls body, bull feet. In front an altar, and above a cresent moon. [drawing 1:1]
15191 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Lapis lazuli paste. Vulture; Asiatic sphinx; Neb sign.
15703 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Chacedony. Poorly cut. [drawing]
15706 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Glazed. Engraved with ichthyomorphic? designs? [drawing 1:1]
15707 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1]
15793 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1]
15806 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Carnelian stamp seal. Engraved with figure of a squatting sphinx. [drawing 1:1]
16113 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Yellow glazed frit. [drawing 1:1]
16117 31-43-66 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Mauve chalcedony(?) Concial-suspended by copper wire. Roughly engraved with figure of a man. [drawing]
16120 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Dark green glazed frit. Engraved with crescent moon and squatting man. [drawing]
16137A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of scaraboid seals. Glaze paste.
16137B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of scaraboid seals. Glaze paste.
16140A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair. Scaraboid seals. Frit.
16140B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Pair. Scaraboid seals. Frit.
16167 (none) (none) (none) Flat seal. Oval quartz. Engraved with design of winged dragon.
16176 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Lapis lazuli. Palm tree.
16190 31-43-8 (none) (none) Amulet. Shell. Flattened double conoid. Engraved with design of snaked(?)
16198A 31-43-213 (none) (none) [A-B] 2 bronze [bronze is struck through and silver written next to it] finger rings. (A) one with circular bezel. Phil.
16209 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Paste (bleached white). Design thus. [drawing 1:1]
16210 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Dark steatite. Design thus. [drawing 1:1]
16211 31-43-1 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Pink limestone. In the form of a recumbent calf; on the flat back a rough design of 2 animals done with drill-holes and engraved lines. This is an early Sumerian piece which is found ina Persian period grave, and must have been an antiquity. [drawing 1:1]
16218 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Chalcedony. Facetted conoid. Below: an adorant before an altar. Persian [drawing 1:1]

Child Terms

Scaraboid Seals - Seal Rings