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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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] |
| 17397 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Gazelle and crescent moon. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17399 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Winged dragon squatting. Tab anal. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17412 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Quartzite? Reddish brown. [drawing] |
| 17630 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Red pebble. Roughly circular, but one side worn away = top convex, underside flat with crude design, drill worked, of two animals (?) much obliterated. [drawing] |
| 17649 | (none) | 1932,1008.178 | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular with ribbed loop handle Mohenjodaro type with characteric Indian bull and inscription of 4 characters. [drawing] |
| 17732 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. Chalcedony. Persian. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17833 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statuette of reclining dog (?). Calcite. Originally, colored bright red (some of color left) with eyes filled in with black. The beast has a ruff and a bushy tail. A hole is pierced from the top of the back to the stomach. On the under side a seal cutting (much perished) showing animals mostly cut with the drill. |
| 17835B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two lion's heads. Silhouetted in profile. White calcite, originally painted red, but the color gone: both are really stamp seals with rough designs drill-cut on the flat lower surface. Both are pierced for suspension from the top of the head to the bottom of the mane. [drawing] |
| 17923 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1] |
| 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] |
| 18190 | (none) | 1932,1008.179 | (none) | Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Square pyramidal design, a spread eagle. |
| 18249 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp of dark steatite. Perhaps a jeweller's die. A god standing on the back of a lion. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18354 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Chalcedony. High flattened conical type a worshipper upon a disk set on a staff. |
| 18361 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. White marble. Convex above: oval, flat below with a crude design of drilled spots. [drawing 1:1] |
| 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. |
| 18448 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Limestone. Conical type. Subject: a standing bull, with crescent above. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 19579 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Square, with pierced pyramidical top. A lizard and 2 scorpions. |
| 19873 | (none) | 1935,0112.71 | (none) | Stamp seal. White calcite. Triangular with rounded corner. One corner missing : on the remaining surface, 2 animals. |
| 19975 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18121B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. Agate ball and carnelian balls and double conoids; chalcedony double conoid; lapis, jasper agate and carnelian date-shaped; jasper (?) double conoid; [B] amethyst scaraboid; [A] steatite flattened balls; glazed frit discoid; [C-D] 2 glazed frit thick discoids with criss-cross on one side: [E] small glazed scaraboid with bungled heiroglyphs: [F] pebble scaraboid. Roughly incised thus: [drawing] [G] carnelian domical ovoid roughly engraved with figure of deer (?); [H] small puzuzu head in turquoise: [I] chalcedony seal, with Persian figure of a man standing in prayer. [drawing] [J] Also: a copper fibula. [drawing] |
| 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?) |
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