This category includes all materials that have a clay base but are not fired originally.  This includes objects such as tablets and mudbrick.  It includes materials that may have been fired after discovery to help in conserving the object.  It can also be refered to as mud figures or mud brick.  It sometimes inlcudes organics or pieces of rock fragment as temper.  

Objects: Unfired Export: JSON - XML - CSV Clay Seals and Sealings

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
14825B 31-16-671 (none) (none) Seal impression. 2 pieces. Probalby belonging together. Stars, stylized reptile, etc. and rosette stamp.
14849 31-16-623 (none) (none) Seal impression. Geometrical patterns, etc.
14852 32-40-473 (none) (none) Seal impression. Geometrical, including possible sign: Good impression of string. Good impression of string underneath. [drawing]
14878 31-16-680 (none) (none) Jar sealings. With rough scratchings. (complete).
14883 31-16-653 (none) (none) Seal impression. Inscription. HC.236
14894 31-16-617 (none) (none) Seal impression. One large and one small antelope.
14896A 31-16-604 (none) (none) Seal impression. Inscription (rare or new signs?) 3 rosettes. Another, nearly complete. Another, nearly complete. 1 rosette. HC.1429, HC.226, HC.237.
14896B 31-16-654 (none) (none) Seal impression. Inscription (rare or new signs?) 3 rosettes. Another, nearly complete. Another, nearly complete. 1 rosette. HC.1429, HC.226, HC.237.
15045 31-16-676 (none) (none) Seal impression. Geometrical and rosette stamp.
16148 31-43-77 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green baked clay. Gilgamesh, Eabani & rampant lion.
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]
16561A 31-43-79 (none) (none) [A, C-O] 14 seal impressions. Ibku-Adad, Son of Zazani, Servant of Adad.: H.C. 30/II, 15
16561C 31-43-86, 31-43-87 (none) (none) [A, C-O] 14 seal impressions. Ibku-Adad, Son of Zazani, Servant of Adad.: H.C. 30/II, 15
16561D 31-43-87, 31-43-88 (none) (none) [A, C-O] 14 seal impressions. Ibku-Adad, Son of Zazani, Servant of Adad.: H.C. 30/II, 15
16561E 31-43-88 (none) (none) [A, C-O] 14 seal impressions. Ibku-Adad, Son of Zazani, Servant of Adad.: H.C. 30/II, 15
16612 31-43-53 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Presentation scene. 3 standing deities. Crescent moon and Palm.
16749 31-43-19 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. 2 crescents on poles and an X. Rough work.
16929A 31-43-90 (none) (none) Clay mould. (A) For a female head in profile, high relief: head with filletted and braided hair, looking right (in impression): rows of necklaces. Full face, rather pleasing and not like the usual Sumerian type. (B) For a bearded male figure, draped, standing in profile facing left (in impression) with hands clasped on breast. Very fine work, bold and yet delicate, perhaps goldsmiths moulds: the female head is best suited to such technique as gold-working. Brought in together and said to have been found together.
16929B 31-43-89 (none) (none) Clay mould. (A) For a female head in profile, high relief: head with filletted and braided hair, looking right (in impression): rows of necklaces. Full face, rather pleasing and not like the usual Sumerian type. (B) For a bearded male figure, draped, standing in profile facing left (in impression) with hands clasped on breast. Very fine work, bold and yet delicate, perhaps goldsmiths moulds: the female head is best suited to such technique as gold-working. Brought in together and said to have been found together.
16930 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Clean-shaven man, holding staff in right hand, left hand to ... (A) Broken off at waist, weak impression. Type XI, c.4.
17011 31-43-5 (none) (none) Terracotta stamp seal. Circular. Perforated top. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17251 31-43-43 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17254 (none) (none) (none) Tablet [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17319 31-43-18 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Animals (?) at gate of shrine course cutting.
17326 31-43-49 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Two standing figures. Between them crescent on a pole. A third figure inverted to the other two.

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