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)
17044D 31-43-215 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 signet rings. [A-C] 3 plain finger rings [of] copper and [D] 1 plain silver ring. Signet rings have circular bezels.
17044A 31-43-216 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 signet rings. [A-C] 3 plain finger rings [of] copper and [D] 1 plain silver ring. Signet rings have circular bezels.
17044E 31-43-217 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 signet rings. [A-C] 3 plain finger rings [of] copper and [D] 1 plain silver ring. Signet rings have circular bezels.
17044B 31-43-218 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 signet rings. [A-C] 3 plain finger rings [of] copper and [D] 1 plain silver ring. Signet rings have circular bezels.
17044C 31-43-219 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 signet rings. [A-C] 3 plain finger rings [of] copper and [D] 1 plain silver ring. Signet rings have circular bezels.
17044F 31-43-220 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 signet rings. [A-C] 3 plain finger rings [of] copper and [D] 1 plain silver ring. Signet rings have circular bezels.
17011 31-43-5 (none) (none) Terracotta stamp seal. Circular. Perforated top. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
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]
16117 31-43-66 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Mauve chalcedony(?) Concial-suspended by copper wire. Roughly engraved with figure of a man. [drawing]
17100 31-43-67 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Black. Conoid. Bearded male figure holding an offering before a throne (?) or altar with a high back in which is planted a spear. Emblems. Fish and crescent moon. [drawing]
16734 31-43-68 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Glazed frit. Palm tree(?) Perforated for suspension. [drawing]
17028 31-43-69 (none) (none) Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Oval. Upper side convex and umbilical antelope (?) and a bird on its back [drawing 1:1]
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]
17355 31-43-71 (none) (none) Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA?
16759A 31-43-73 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs.
16759B 31-43-73 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs.
16759C 31-43-73 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs.
16759D 31-43-73 (none) (none) 4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs.
16397 31-43-74 (none) (none) Button seal. Baked clay. Glazed. Bleached white. Stamped with scorpion. Dome-shaped bulbous dome stamped with 4 concentric circles. [drawing]
16747 31-43-75 (none) (none) Flat seal. Greenish grey steatite. Circular. Upper side convex and decorated with 4 circles, and 3 parallel incisions. Under side a man with a bowl resting against back of neck over shoulders balanced by each arm-suspended from it are 3 water skins, and to one side of the man a stool(?). Pair of stars. [drawing] obv. for rev. see photo.
17341 31-43-76 (none) (none) Button seal. Steatite(?). White. Fragment. Half only remains. Animals. With a boss on the upper side perforated for suspension.
16190 31-43-8 (none) (none) Amulet. Shell. Flattened double conoid. Engraved with design of snaked(?)
16618 31-43-9 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Greenish grey steatite. Pyramidal. 2 scorpions.
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]
17662 32-40-319 (none) (none) Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1]
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Scaraboid Seals - Seal Rings