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)
16210 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Dark steatite. Design thus. [drawing 1:1]
16218 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Chalcedony. Facetted conoid. Below: an adorant before an altar. Persian [drawing 1:1]
16286E (none) (none) (none) [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken).
16286F (none) (none) (none) [A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken).
16362 (none) 1931,1010.272 (none) Bronze finger ring with oval-shaped bezel.
16610 (none) 1931,1010.63 (none) Stamp seal. White marble? 3 animals, one of them a gazelle? [drawing]
16613 (none) 1931,1010.71 (none) Stamp seal. Black steatite. Spread eagle. [drawing]
16615 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Grey limestone. Hemispherical. Spread eagle.
16626 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Baked clay. Linear desings. [drawing 1:1]
16638 (none) 1931,1010.62 (none) Flat seal. Ovoid. White limestone. Scorpion? and 5 circles. [drawing]
16678 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Square. Spread eagle. Hole perforated horizontally through convex upper side of seal.
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.
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.
16805 (none) 1931,1010.74 (none) Carnelian scaraboid. Phoenician inscription. [drawing]
17024 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Mottled grey. Hero between a pair of antelopes? Rampant very faintly outlined. [drawing]
17121B (none) (none) (none) Seals. Two steatite plaques, rectangular and oblong, flat on one side and gabled on the other, the gabled side pierced perhaps for a metal ring handle. A) [drawing 1:1] thus, with rough design of a scorpion. B) smaller but apparently with the same design (much worn)
17330 (none) 1931,1010.70 (none) Stamp seal. Conical. Glass paste? Gazelle crescent moon.
17338 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Black. Oblong sides convex. [drawing]
17339 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Dark grey. Oval. Scorpion.
17342 (none) 1931,1010.14 (none) Button seal. Polished stone. Mottled. Fragment.
17343 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Baked clay. Crescent shaped. Design: Deeplay and crescent thus [reference to drawing] [drawing]
17380 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Stone. Mottled. Crescent moon, circles and spears (?). [drawing]

Child Terms

Scaraboid Seals - Seal Rings