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)
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]
19975 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. [drawing 1:1]
20041C (none) (none) (none) Beads. [A] A large collection, mostly carnelian but also other stones[?], of various forms together with a [B] steatite pendant thus [drawing] and a [C] paste scarab inscribed thus [drawing] [D] and a copper fibula (broken) thus [drawing] . Said to have been found with nos 20042-7.
2597 (none) (none) (none) Seal. Green glaze. Cynophelous monkey intaglio: pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
2643 (none) 1927,1003.72 (none) Stone seal. Flat seal, pierced for suspension: design obliterated. Roughly circular.
2856 (none) (none) (none) Cone seal. Glazed pottery. Egyptian style. Neo-Babylonian period. [drawing]
2995 (none) (none) (none) Flat seal. Pottery. Neo-Babylonian/Persian Period [drawing]
3225 (none) 1927,1003.207 (none) Square seal. Diorite. Early Sumerian, Before BC 3200. [drawing]
3289 (none) 1927,1003.206 (none) Stone seal or button. Pendant type of brown stone with basket-work pattern. [drawing 1:1]
3323 (none) (none) (none) Seal? Steatite. Unusual crescent shape. Running wild bull among tree. [drawing]
411 (none) (none) (none) Chalcedony seal. Very roughly engraved with design of two fish. [drawing 1:1]
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.
486 (none) (none) (none) Chalcedony seal [drawing]
487 (none) (none) B15256 Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [referencing drawin] [drawing]
488 (none) (none) (none) Agate seal. Same shape as U.486. subject [drawing]
489 (none) (none) (none) Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [drawing]
490 (none) (none) (none) Agate seal. Oblong, oval, topped. Subject [drawing]
491 (none) 1923,1110.197 (none) Amethystine quartz seal. Pointed on top, like U.486, Subject, sphinx couchant.[drawing]
492 (none) 1923,1110.198 (none) Agate seal. Oval topped. Subject, sphinx. [drawing]
493 (none) (none) (none) Lapis lazuli seal, pointed topped, like U 486. Subject, a fish. [drawing]
494 (none) 1923,1110.196 (none) Lapis lazuli seal. Scaraboid. Subject [drawing]
495 (none) (none) (none) Scarab. White steatite. Inscr. [drawing]

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Scaraboid Seals - Seal Rings