This category contains depictions of a human who is shown with a strong physical build, usually a beard, sometimes a bald head, and no prominent breasts.  

Objects: Male 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)
8993 (none) (none) B16875 Cylinder seal Dark greenish steatite. Very large with fine engraved scene: 3 human figures and 2 man-headed bulls crossed.
8513 (none) (none) B16869 Cylinder seal White shell, much decayed, but preserving an inscription in the upper register [drawing of inscription]
9310 (none) (none) B17009 Cylinder seal White shell Nude reclining figure, one figure standing facing, and 2 men fighting (?) Short inscription: urd nisaba
9187 (none) (none) B16871 Cylinder seal White shell Burnt and reduced to lime. Scene: fighting men and animals.
8476 (none) (none) B16887 Cylinder seal Steatite Black Inscribed but illegible. Two heroes attacking a rampant lion. One grasps him by the tail, the other attacks from the front.
9261 (none) (none) B16892 Cylinder seal Shell? 2 seated gods, between them a standing god. Behind one throne a palm tree.
10530 (none) (none) B16747 Cylinder Seal Shell Inscribed Naked bird-headed hero with sharp upstanding hair resembling plumes pulls a rampant antelope by the horns; before the antelope a pair of rampant lions crossed and beyond the lions a rampant ram reversed-head downwards. Below the ram a scorpion. Inscription reserved on an upper register: Lugal-sa(g)-pad-da). HC 211
9661 (none) (none) B16874 Cylinder seal Marble Mottled Slightly concave Inscribed: - 2 lions rampant, crossed: behind each an attacking hero - beyond are two retainers. Upper register: inscription, lower register: rampant gazelle and hero. Inscription /......mu; Lugal-gis; My (?).... Lugal-gis. (HC. 207)
9183 (none) (none) B16854 Cylinder seal Lapis, with gold caps (the latter rather broken). Subject: Gilgamesh and Eabani.
9064 (none) (none) B16898 Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli Silver core Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant lion and rampant bull respectively.
9721 (none) (none) B17024 Cylinder seal Haematite Black Copper caps. This seal adhered to copper pin U.9720 Two seated deities, facing on another, from the first a stream of water trickles from the out-stretched left hand; above, crescent moon; second deity holds a cup? in right hand; above him the sun; and third standing deity? faces him. Behind the first deity a standing attendant.
10364 (none) (none) B16872 Cylinder Seal Greenish grey marble Hero: on either side a rampant bull and a rampant lion. Attributes: Crescent Moon, and star on two legged pole.
9298 (none) (none) B17012 Cylinder seal Green stone Gilgamesh and Eabani
9652 (none) (none) B16857 Cylinder seal Dark steatite A hero fighting a bull (or wild oryx)? and a lion and a bull fighting.
9634 (none) (none) B16935 Cylinder Seal Dark steatite 2 heroes fighting lions
10757 (none) (none) B16924 Cylinder Seal Carnelian with gold caps 3 goddesses, one seated; on the lap of the seated goddess a naked male figure. All the goddesses wear wigs of similar type and hair done up at back in a bun. One advances towards throne carrying a bowl, the second carries a vase with a splayed base suspended by a long handle. Behind throne a goddess carrying an (Ostrich fan?) All the goddesses wear skirts fringed at bottom and with a long hem running down side.
9100 (none) (none) B16878 Cylinder seal Black marble? Highly polished Course cutting Slightly concave Seated god within 2 gates of a shrine. 1 divinity knocking at each door
487 (none) (none) B15256 Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [referencing drawin] [drawing]
775 (none) (none) B15248 Carnelian cylinder seal. Archer in chariot driving rt. shoots at kneeling archer l. Late style with a good deal of drill point work, but not bad. ? 8th century.
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