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)
	16759D	31-43-73	(none)	(none)	4 Scaraboid seals. Blue and green glazed frit. With quasi hieroglyphic signs.
	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.
	16805	(none)	1931,1010.74	(none)	Carnelian scaraboid. Phoenician inscription. [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.
	494	(none)	1923,1110.196	(none)	Lapis lazuli seal. Scaraboid. Subject [drawing]
	18105	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scarab seal of glazed frit, the glaze perished. Highly conventionalized: below, a goat? [drawing]
	17941	(none)	1932,1008.180	(none)	Scarab. Frit, formerly glazed, now perished. [drawing 1:1]
	17355	31-43-71	(none)	(none)	Scarab. Glass paste. Yellowish. Tip missing. Two hieroglyphic (?) signs and a seated deity. RA?
	496	(none)	(none)	B15255	Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
	495	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scarab. White steatite. Inscr. [drawing]
	15706	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Glazed. Engraved with ichthyomorphic? designs? [drawing 1:1]
	15793	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1]
	16120	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Dark green glazed frit. Engraved with crescent moon and squatting man. [drawing]
	16210	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Dark steatite. Design thus. [drawing 1:1]
	14444B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Glazed. Persian.
	15807	(none)	1930,1213.144	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1]
	16176	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Lapis lazuli. Palm tree.
	15493	(none)	1930,1213.142	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Now dull yellow. glazed. Incised with design of sphinx. [drawing 1:1]
	16209	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Paste (bleached white). Design thus. [drawing 1:1]
	16113	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Yellow glazed frit. [drawing 1:1]
	497	(none)	(none)	B15250	Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
	16137A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Pair of scaraboid seals. Glaze paste.
	16137B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Pair of scaraboid seals. Glaze paste.
	16140A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Pair. Scaraboid seals. Frit.
	16140B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Pair. Scaraboid seals. Frit.

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