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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 17732 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. Chalcedony. Persian. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17797 | 32-40-345 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Shell. One side flattened and rough representation of animal drilled and scratched on. [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. |
| 17835A | 32-40-308 | (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] | |
| 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] |
| 18167 | 32-40-320 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Of dark and light grey pebble. Rectangular, with slightly convex top, pierced longitudinally. Rough design on base, of a man with his arms raised and his legs twisted up in an impossible fashion (?) [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] |
| 18284 | 33-35-170 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Facetted conical: chalcedony. Persian type. Two standing figures worshipping before an altar: crescent above. |
| 18285 | 33-35-80 | (none) | (none) | Signet ring. Copper. With oval bezel on which an engraved design, (corroded). | |
| 18337 | 33-35-169 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, with convex tip, pierced horizontally. Subject: 2 animals, a third animal and an unrecognizable object: engraved mostly with the circular drill. |
| 18341 | 33-35-164 | (none) | (none) | Animal's body. Grey steatite. Body of couchant animal, the hind quarters complete, in fairly high relief: the front leg only sketched: the stone is rounded off at the shoulder so that there never was a head. The body is flat and bears two engraved signs thus. [drawing] |
| 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. |
| 18458 | 33-35-81 | (none) | (none) | Copper finger-ring. With circular bezel, engraved. | |
| 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. |
| 19974 | 35-1-18 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. [drawing 1:1] |
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