Two main types of seals were used in the Ancient Near East, the stamp seal and the cylinder seal. Stamp seals first appeared in 'administrative' contexts in central and northern Mesopotamia in the sev
Clay bulla impressed with the seal of Barnamtarra, wife of Lugalanda, ensi (ruler) of Lagash. Early Dynastic III, c. 2400 BC. Found in Telloh (ancient Girsu)
Stamp seal and modern impression. Horned animal and bird, 6th–5th millennium B.C. Northern Syria or Southeastern Anatolia. Ubaid period. Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The stamp seal is a common seal die, frequently carved from stone, known at least since the 6th millennium BC and probably earlier. The dies were used to impress their picture or inscription into soft
Ancient Near Eastern seals and sealing practices
…Two main types of seals were used in the Ancient Near East, the stamp seal and the cylinder seal. Stamp seals first appeared in 'administrative' contexts in central and northern Mesopotamia in the seventh millennium and were…
A stamp seal and its impression. The impression rotated clockwise 90 degrees probably yields a version of the Tree of Life-(see Urartian art photos).
Indus seal, (with modern impression); from ca. mid- to late-3rd millennium BC.(?)
Stamp seal of an Egyptian named: Meru-the Answerer of Horus (Brooklyn Museum)
Signaculum PRIMIT ("first")