Objects: Greenstone 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)
17015 31-43-52 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 figures before a standing goddess. Goose
17017 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Calcite. Grey. Unpierced. Seated god and standing figure before hair.
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]
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]
17121A 31-43-10 (none) (none) Seals. Two steatite plaques, rectangular and oblong, flat on one side and gabled on the other, the gabled side pierced perhaps for a metal ring handle. A) [drawing 1:1] thus, with rough design of a scorpion. B) smaller but apparently with the same design (much worn)
17245 31-43-33, 31-43-33 (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal. Lazib, son of Bibi.[CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17312 (none) 1931,1010.26 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 standing figures.
17314 31-43-63 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Unpierced. Unfinished. A reserve for an inscription which has not been inserted.
17317 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Two standing figures and a winged dragon.
17322 31-43-18 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Light brown. Trial piece. Unfinished.
17325 31-43-40 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Grey. One roughly cut human figure and second carrying an animal (?) two spears? [second carrying an animal has been crossed out on catalog card]
17328 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. One human figure thus [drawing] and a small animal (?) roughly incised.
1733 (none) (none) B15589 Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Very scratchily engraved on one side only with design of 2 men fighting a lion. P. [drawing]
17332 31-43-17 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Fragment. 3 geese (?).
17334 31-43-41 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Fragment. Enkidu and Eabani fighting rampant lion.
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.
17344 31-43-30 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Dark grey. Small portion missing. Presentation scene. Two standing figures before a seated god. Crescent moon.
17763 32-40-329 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Obscured; 2 lines of inscription. Adoring figure of goddess separated by star on staff.
17871 32-40-326 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Badly chipped. Presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and 3 columns of inscription.
17877 32-40-323 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity & standing attendant. Poor cutting.
18258 33-35-173 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene. Seated goddess, with 2 standing figures and 2 lizards. Poor condition.
18276 33-35-174 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Fragment of greenish grey steatite. Only 2 columns of inscription left; no figures.
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]
18452 33-35-179 (none) (none) Cylinder seal of black steatite. Design: running gazelles, zigzags and frogs.
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Marble - Quartzite - Schist - Slate

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Soapstone - Steatite