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Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17451, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17408, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17436, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-16972, described as Cylinder seal; standing goat and kneeling man in Right profile on opposite sides of a tree; goat has drilled eyes. Vertical panel with diagonal lines reaches from single incised lines around top and bottom of cylinder. Longitudinal drill hole. Use of drill shows Mitanni influence. Middle Elamite, second half o 2nd millennium BC.  Length 1.8 cm; diameter 0.85 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17430, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17392, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17434, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17356, described as Ring seal. Quartz, agate. Male figure, standing. Figure is in right profile standing or walking, beardless and the hair is bound with a fillet that may have a cross tie and he wears a girded coat. One vertical and three horizontal bars appear behind the figure. These sticks could represent the Zoroastrian barsom. In this case the figure raises ritual barsom sticks before him with a transverse bar crossing near the top. Color: white to translucent honey banding. Condition: carved surface some what smoothed from wearing without destruction. Diagonal cut across head and face occurred over original carving.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17459, described as Stamp seal.
Hearst Museum object titled Seal, accession number 9-17363, described as Stamp seal. Truncated ellipsoid. Quartz: agate. Gayomard, mythical figure. Quasi-human male figure, frontal stance, nude hairy body depicted with textural line work. Arms and legs are out spread and in each hand a staff is grasped. Prominent genitalia. The dog which is usually present is absent here. Head depicted in a triangular shape, almost lion-like. Color: light to honey translucent. Cloudy swirls of opaque white and yellow on back. Condition: engraved surface chipped on edge, lower regions and very top. Tool marks on back of seal. Tiny chips at drilled hole each side. 2 large chips on back of seal.