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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 15493 | (none) | 1930,1213.142 | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Now dull yellow. glazed. Incised with design of sphinx. [drawing 1:1] |
| 16176 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Lapis lazuli. Palm tree. |
| 15807 | (none) | 1930,1213.144 | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14444B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Glazed. Persian. |
| 16210 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Dark steatite. Design thus. [drawing 1:1] |
| 16120 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Dark green glazed frit. Engraved with crescent moon and squatting man. [drawing] | |
| 15191 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Lapis lazuli paste. Vulture; Asiatic sphinx; Neb sign. |
| 15793 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15706 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Glazed. Engraved with ichthyomorphic? designs? [drawing 1:1] |
| 495 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scarab. White steatite. Inscr. [drawing] |
| 496 | (none) | (none) | B15255 | Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing] | |
| 17355 | 31-43-71 | (none) | (none) | Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA? | |
| 17941 | (none) | 1932,1008.180 | (none) | Scarab. Frit, formerly glazed, now perished. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18105 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Scarab seal of glazed frit, the glaze perished. Highly conventionalized: below, a goat? [drawing] |
| 447 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pyramidal seal. Black steatite. one half of Subject: a standing god rt; before him a standing worshipper l: between them a sacred column (?) and a scorpion. |
| 6501 | (none) | 1927,0527.142 | (none) | Miniature bull pendant. Shell. Flat base with and information upon it? Possibly a winged animal and crescent moon. Crouching winged dragon. Crescent. About BC 500 (or early ??) |
| 494 | (none) | 1923,1110.196 | (none) | Lapis lazuli seal. Scaraboid. Subject [drawing] |
| 1146 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lapis lazuli seal. Human figurre incised. [drawing] |
| 493 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lapis lazuli seal, pointed topped, like U 486. Subject, a fish. [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] | |
| 18256B | (none) | 1933,1013.11 | (none) | Group. [A] 1) Large earring (?) of base silver, a ring with 6 pendant grape clusters. [B] 2) Silver finger ring with flat bezel engraved thus [reference to drawing], roughly with figure of a dog. [C] 3) Copper ring with silver oval bezel, the design perished. [D-F] 4) A set of 3 copper rings once set with glass paste (or in two cases stones?) |
| 6737 | (none) | (none) | B16210, B16210 | Fragment of steatite stamp for bricks. (E)-gu-bu?. About BC 2700. E. |
| 7124 | (none) | 1927,0527.202 | (none) | Flat seal. Yellow paste. Hemispherical. Crescent moon and star. Neo-Babylonian. |
| 7123 | (none) | 1927,0527.195 | (none) | Flat seal. White paste. Hemispherical. Fish and serpent. Neo-Babylonian. B. [drawing on separate card][drawing 1:1] |
| 17399 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Winged dragon squatting. Tab anal. [drawing 1:1] |
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