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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 15323 | (none) | 1930,1213.138 | (none) | Stamp seal. Black steatite. Square, with oval handle laterally pierced. Much worn: on the face a design. [drawing] |
| 16605 | 31-43-6 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Black steatite. Square. Perforated through holder. Pair of crescent moons. Pair of stars; pair of ostriches. [drawing] | |
| 15703 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Chacedony. Poorly cut. [drawing] |
| 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] |
| 15707 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18928 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey hematite. Square, with tubular handle. A seated figure to whom an attendant offers a spouted libation vase. Very curious cutting, especially in the faces. |
| 16615 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey limestone. Hemispherical. Spread eagle. |
| 15491 | (none) | 1930,1213.143 | (none) | Stamp seal. Rounded, upper side umbilical. Greenish glaze with design of a dog(?). [drawing 1:1] |
| 18830 | (none) | 1935,0112.55 | (none) | Stamp seal. Square. Dark mottled steatite. A spread eagle holding in one claw a club(?) and with the other clasping a small human figure. |
| 16678 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Steatite. Square. Spread eagle. Hole perforated horizontally through convex upper side of seal. |
| 13722 | 31-17-24 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Translucent white quartzite(?) oval, flat below & rounded above: on the flat base, traces of an animal design mostly done with a drill-point, in dots joined up by rough engraving; the design really unrecognisable now. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 14476 | (none) | 1930,1213.139 | (none) | Stamp seal. White marble(?) or pebble. scaraboid shape. Rudely engraved below thus: [drawing 1:1] |
| 16610 | (none) | 1931,1010.63 | (none) | Stamp seal. White marble? 3 animals, one of them a gazelle? [drawing] |
| 17343 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Baked clay. Crescent shaped. Design: Deeplay and crescent thus [reference to drawing] [drawing] |
| 17381 | (none) | 1931,1010.69 | (none) | Stamp seal. Baked clay. Green. Figures on three sides. Demon, gazelle, bird and on under side man with hand raised over a spear (?) [drawing 1:1] |
| 16613 | (none) | 1931,1010.71 | (none) | Stamp seal. Black steatite. Spread eagle. [drawing] |
| 18442 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Button type: pierced horizontally grey steatite. In the convex top are 6 shallow holes drilled, partly to take inlay: on the flat base is a roughly engraved subject. |
| 16218 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Chalcedony. Facetted conoid. Below: an adorant before an altar. Persian [drawing 1:1] |
| 18354 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Chalcedony. High flattened conical type a worshipper upon a disk set on a staff. |
| 16408 | 31-43-2 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Circular, convex above of striped black and white marble, design almost entirely perished; worked mostly with the drill. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17330 | (none) | 1931,1010.70 | (none) | Stamp seal. Conical. Glass paste? Gazelle crescent moon. |
| 11181 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Handle type, rectangular. Scorpion. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18190 | (none) | 1932,1008.179 | (none) | Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Square pyramidal design, a spread eagle. |
| 19579 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Square, with pierced pyramidical top. A lizard and 2 scorpions. |
| 16734 | 31-43-68 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Glazed frit. Palm tree(?) Perforated for suspension. [drawing] |
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