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Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-2260, described as Cylinder seal; black stone. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Chert. Starting at left: Lion scimitar; figure with pail in left hand, holding sprinkler (?) in right hand stands behind diety with mace. The latter faces a figure with lion scimitar. Below scimitar is a mongoose, crescent in field above. Old Babylonian period] Typed remarks: original label: "Found in Southern Babylonia. A black stone seal cylinder engraved with a figure of a god, two priests and several animals. It dates from early Babylonian times, 2400 BC or earlier

Hearst Museum object titled Cylinder seal, accession number 9-5256, described as Cylinder seal: hematite [hematite crossed out on card; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: lapis lazuli and chert], Gilgamesh [Gilgamesh cross out on card], human between two horned animals with lion attacking left. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: 22 x 10 mm. Chip on upper edge. Contest freize: Hero clasping two antelopes, one of which is being attacked by a lion. Upside down serpent bites right foot of the lion, ED III]

Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1922, described as Cylindrical bead. Two lions with canine (?) heads flanking a boar. In flied winged sun disc above boar. Palm tree between the composite. (Catalogue card)

Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5236, described as Cylinder seal: long reddish gray limestone [long reddish gray limestone crossed out on card; handwritten on card: chert or jasper, ochre] with rampant animal between trees. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card: badly worn, rampant animal facing tree, flanked by trees. In field: star (?), lozenge. Style: trans Mid Assyrian to Neo - Assyrian. References: Buchanan, Briggs. 1966. Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum I. Cylinder Seals. Oxford: Clarendon P., #572] [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Middle Assyrian. Cylinder seal. Well worn. From left: an animal standing on its hind legs with its head turned back; a rapacious bird with outstretched wings in vertical position; a tree. In field: a star and lozenge ]

Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5245, described as Cylinder seal: stone, seated goddess with demon behind with mother-Goddess introducing worshipper. Babylonian [Babylonian crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Ur III] [Handwritten on card: black chert, worn, 20.5 x 10 mm. Ritual scene: worshipper led by goddess to enthroned goddess. Bird (?) in field. Terminal: lion-griffin. Style: UrIII] [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Cylinder seal. Surface worn. 20.5 x 10.5 mm. Ritual scene: Worshipper led by minor deity toward enthroned deity. Lion griffin behind seated diety. In field: unidentified object between deities. Chert, black]

Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5247, described as Cylinder seal: hematite [hematite crossed out; handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: jasper or chert, brownish black ], inscribed Shamash and Ai, three full and one half figures with moon, wedge and bee in field. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Old Babylonian. 19.5 x 12 mm. From left to right: Standing figure; nude female dwarf; suppliant figure facing diety with mace (?). In field sun and crescent over nude female; spade Marduk in front of god; "v" shaped symbol over hand of suppliant figure. Inscription: d samas d A-a Samas Aja]

Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5239, described as Cylinder seal: long grayish yellow, guilloche with double diameters. Babylonian. [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Minor damage and losses. 37 x 12 mm. Lozenges outlined by oblique parallel lines, short horizontal lines. Fine grained stone, possibly chert, yellowish gray with black edges. Jemdet Nasr]

Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-5268, described as Hemispheroid: engraved scorpion. Babylonian [Handwritten on card by Yoko Tomabechi: Seal, stamp. Domed. Ht. 12.5 mm. Face 12 x 11 mm. Dome decorated with three parallel lines running around the dome; small lines running perpendicular to the long lines. Motif: scorpion. Chert, dark brown. Sasanian, 5th c. AD. References: Bivar, A.D.H. 1969. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic seals in the British Museum, Stamp Seals II. London: Published for The Trustees of the British Museum by the British Museum Press., seal KA 4]

Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-1925, described as Cylindrical bead. Old Babylonian. 23 x 10.5 cm (2 different measurements on card, see below). Supplicant goddess facing left and part of a supplicant goddess facing left; blank space between with no trace of inscription. Condition: One half lost vertically. cf. Frankfort, H. 1955. Stratified cylinder seals from the Diyala region, #712, (Isin-Larsa) #908, 917 (Old Babylonian).