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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7124 | (none) | 1927,0527.202 | (none) | Flat seal. Yellow paste. Hemispherical. Crescent moon and star. Neo-Babylonian. |
| 7065 | (none) | 1927,0527.203 | (none) | Seal. Grey stone. Oblong rounded ends, on one side lion with flowing tail devouring a bird, on the other a human head, at side a fish, and on opposite side 5 holes in a line. E. |
| 6299 | (none) | 1927,0527.206 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Flat on one side hemispherical on the other glazed pottery scarab on the flat a crouching dragon (?) Egypt in influence. About BC 500. |
| 6935 | (none) | 1927,0527.207 | (none) | Seal. Black steatite. Cut on flat base. Pyramid shaped. Rough work. Chair? Scorpion above or animal? Before 3000BC. E. [drawing] |
| 3289 | (none) | 1927,1003.206 | (none) | Stone seal or button. Pendant type of brown stone with basket-work pattern. [drawing 1:1] |
| 3225 | (none) | 1927,1003.207 | (none) | Square seal. Diorite. Early Sumerian, Before BC 3200. [drawing] |
| 2643 | (none) | 1927,1003.72 | (none) | Stone seal. Flat seal, pierced for suspension: design obliterated. Roughly circular. |
| 7683 | (none) | 1928,1009.56 | (none) | Flat seal. Rectangular base with rounded corners. Half cylinder pierced superimposed. Steatite. Mottled grey. Inscribed. Powerful bull=like animal with head bent downwards. In style of Mohenjo Daro seals. |
| 7690 | (none) | 1928,1009.57 | (none) | Flat seal. Pyramidal. 5 round cavities on flat side [drawing of pattern] |
| 7915 | (none) | 1928,1009.58 | (none) | Flat seal. Convex on one side. Hole perforated through top for attachment. Whorl design on flat side. Yellowish marble with red streaks. |
| 9265 | (none) | 1928,1009.59 | (none) | Button seal Black shale? One side flat, the other convex On the convex side 4 sets of concentric rings Pl. 62 vol. IV L.BM. 120576 |
| 15323 | (none) | 1930,1213.138 | (none) | Stamp seal. Black steatite. Square, with oval handle laterally pierced. Much worn: on the face a design. [drawing] |
| 14476 | (none) | 1930,1213.139 | (none) | Stamp seal. White marble(?) or pebble. scaraboid shape. Rudely engraved below thus: [drawing 1:1] |
| 14441A | (none) | 1930,1213.140 | (none) | Stamp seal. Shell. Archaic. Perforated horizontally through top twice. Seal is cut to represent calf with head bent back over the body. Under side engraved with design of 3 bird headed men rowing a bellum. The bellum is made of reeds intertwined vertically and horizontally. From the furrow and stem of the boat a spike (?) for ramming protrudes horizontally to the line of the boat. Each figure appears to have a circular shield (?) round the body. |
| 15493 | (none) | 1930,1213.142 | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Now dull yellow. glazed. Incised with design of sphinx. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15491 | (none) | 1930,1213.143 | (none) | Stamp seal. Rounded, upper side umbilical. Greenish glaze with design of a dog(?). [drawing 1:1] |
| 15807 | (none) | 1930,1213.144 | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1] |
| 16181 | (none) | 1931,1010.13 | (none) | Button seal. Steatite. Incised cross on flat side. Convex side also had triple cross incisions and incised circles. Over part of the seal is a white surface that has the appearance of a glaze. Seal has been perforated transversely through the convex side. The white surface is visible also the inside of the perforated hole. [drawing] |
| 17342 | (none) | 1931,1010.14 | (none) | Button seal. Polished stone. Mottled. Fragment. |
| 16761 | (none) | 1931,1010.271 | (none) | Silver finger Ring. With oval bezel-engraved. |
| 16362 | (none) | 1931,1010.272 | (none) | Bronze finger ring with oval-shaped bezel. | |
| 16638 | (none) | 1931,1010.62 | (none) | Flat seal. Ovoid. White limestone. Scorpion? and 5 circles. [drawing] |
| 16610 | (none) | 1931,1010.63 | (none) | Stamp seal. White marble? 3 animals, one of them a gazelle? [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] |
| 17330 | (none) | 1931,1010.70 | (none) | Stamp seal. Conical. Glass paste? Gazelle crescent moon. |
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