Scaraboid Seals

This category includes seals that are shaped like Scarab beetles. They are usually made of stone with inscribed beetle features on the top and scenes on the bottom.  The inscribed scenes on the bottom are then pressed into mud/clay sealings. 

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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)
	16796F	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-E] 5 Puzuzu heads. Glazed frit. [F] 1 glazed scaraboid bead with quasi-hieroglyphic sign.
	16805	(none)	1931,1010.74	(none)	Carnelian scaraboid. Phoenician inscription. [drawing]
	17355	31-43-71	(none)	(none)	Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA?
	17941	(none)	1932,1008.180	(none)	Scarab. Frit, formerly glazed, now perished. [drawing 1:1]
	18105	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scarab seal of glazed frit, the glaze perished. Highly conventionalized: below, a goat? [drawing]
	18121B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Beads. Agate ball and carnelian balls and double conoids; chalcedony double conoid; lapis, jasper agate and carnelian date-shaped; jasper (?) double conoid; [B] amethyst scaraboid; [A] steatite flattened balls; glazed frit discoid; [C-D] 2 glazed frit thick discoids with criss-cross on one side: [E] small glazed scaraboid with bungled heiroglyphs: [F] pebble scaraboid. Roughly incised thus: [drawing] [G] carnelian domical ovoid roughly engraved with figure of deer (?); [H] small puzuzu head in turquoise: [I] chalcedony seal, with Persian figure of a man standing in prayer. [drawing] [J] Also: a copper fibula. [drawing]
	20041C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. [A] A large collection, mostly carnelian but also other stones[?], of various forms together with a [B] steatite pendant thus [drawing] and a [C] paste scarab inscribed thus [drawing] [D] and a copper fibula (broken) thus [drawing] . Said to have been found with nos 20042-7.
	494	(none)	1923,1110.196	(none)	Lapis lazuli seal. Scaraboid. Subject [drawing]
	495	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scarab. White steatite. Inscr. [drawing]
	496	(none)	(none)	B15255	Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
	497	(none)	(none)	B15250	Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
	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.

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