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)
	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.
	15493	(none)	1930,1213.142	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Now dull yellow. glazed. Incised with design of sphinx. [drawing 1:1]
	15706	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Glazed. Engraved with ichthyomorphic? designs? [drawing 1:1]
	15793	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1]
	15807	(none)	1930,1213.144	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1]
	16113	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Yellow glazed frit. [drawing 1:1]
	16120	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Dark green glazed frit. Engraved with crescent moon and squatting man. [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.
	16176	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Lapis lazuli. Palm tree.
	16209	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Paste (bleached white). Design thus. [drawing 1:1]
	16210	(none)	(none)	(none)	Scaraboid seal. Dark steatite. Design thus. [drawing 1:1]
	16286E	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken).
	16286F	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken).
	16783A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] 3 seals. 2 scaraboids. (A). 1 frit scaraboid with scorpion engraved; (B). 1 mottled marble(?) with gazelle engraved. (C). 1 brownish stone stamp seal: star engraved.
	16783B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] 3 seals. 2 scaraboids. (A). 1 frit scaraboid with scorpion engraved; (B). 1 mottled marble(?) with gazelle engraved. (C). 1 brownish stone stamp seal: star engraved.
	16805	(none)	1931,1010.74	(none)	Carnelian scaraboid. Phoenician inscription. [drawing]
	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]

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