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• TB-011  + (Rectangular sealing face broken in one corner. Incised with 1 large animals and 2 small animals, all horned. As well as a flower shaped object. Reverse is ridged and broken at one end.)
• TB-010  + (Rectangular sealing face with a notch on one side and a bump on the opposite side. Reverse is a low ridge aligned on the other two sides from the notch and bump. Is incised with a set of 4 similar shapes aligned with the corners, the centre is empty. The)
• AP-040  + (Rectangular with rounded corners; cream stone stamp seal; reverse is very flat but the suspension loop broke and the seal was re-drilled through the centre; incised design has a large square cross-hatching and a series of roughly aligned diagonals.)
• UK-014  + (Roughly circular seal face with a low irregular domed back. Pierced off-centre transversly. Face shows a central cross quartering the seal with each quarter containing a v shape aligned to the centre and a mark at the end.)
• AP-016  + (Roughly circular with protruding suspensio …
  Roughly circular with protruding suspension loop; brown/green stone pendant seal; profile is torpedo shaped; incised geometric design has a central star (*) shape surrounded by aligned diagonal lines forming squares (see AP-015 and 014). Condition is complete.
  ee AP-015 and 014). Condition is complete.)
• AP-009  + (Roughly oval very dark green stone pendant …
  Roughly oval very dark green stone pendant seal; profile is wedge shaped but tapers only close to the bottom of the seal; pierced inline with the body of the seal at the top; incised geometric design has 2 horizontal lines intersected with regular diagonals surrounded by incised lines roughly aligned with the centre of the seal. Condition is generally good but there is some slight chipping at the top.
  there is some slight chipping at the top.)
• AP-007  + (Roughly pear shaped with an elongated susp …
  Roughly pear shaped with an elongated suspension loop; dark green with lighter green mottling stone pendant seal; reverse of seal is incised with lines that resemble a shell; profile is wedge shaped; incised geometric design has square cross-hatching inter-cut with large diagonal cross-hatching. Condition is complete.
  nal cross-hatching. Condition is complete.)
• TB-002  + (Roughly square stamp face with a low ridged reverse. Pierced through the high point of the ridge, 2/3 of which have however apparently been worn smooth exposing the path of the piercing. The face shows a a series of connected geometric lines, possible an)
• TB-001  + (Roughly triangular seal face, irregular sealing face. Possible very worn down, reverse has one flat side and the other is sloped. Pierced through the middle)
• TJ-001  + (Round seal face with incised image of a quadreped with large horns/antlers. Possible a tine is indicated at the end of the horn/antler suggesting the animal is a type of deer. The reverse is a shallow dome pierced longitudinally. Made of mottled black mar)
• TJ-003  + (Round seal face with incised lines radiating at semi-regular intervals from a central pierced hole. Four other holes are lovated at 90 degree intervals. The face has 5 axes of reflectional symmetry. The reverse of the seal rises to a tapered point where t)
• AP-012  + (Rounded triangular black (v-dark green) pendant seal; profile is wedge shaped with a slightly rounded top; incised geometric design has a central horizontal line with a series of incised lines aligned towards the centre of the seal. Condition is complete.)
• AP-003  + (Rounded triangular dark green stone pendan …
  Rounded triangular dark green stone pendant seal; profile is wedge shaped with a rapid thinning from the top; pierced at the top; incised geometric design with a central framed unit of square and triangular cross-hatching flanked by incised lines aligned with a central line. Seal body is chipped with concretions on the face.
  y is chipped with concretions on the face.)
• BN-001  + (Sealing face is an extended oval or sub-rectangular. It is incised with a series of 6 lines transversely crossing the seal face and a lossely longitudinal line which passes through 4 of the transverse lines. The reverse is triangular in profile with a fla)
• UK-012  + (Sealing face is pentagonal and incised with 7 deep straight lines which regularly divide the entire face of the seal into squares. The reverse of the seal is flat with a bulbous protrusion for the suspension loop. The protrusion is pierced diagonally with)
• NR-001  + (Sealing face is sub-circular and has incisions which appear to show a reclining stag or sitting animal, above the head are a set of geometric lines which could represent antlers. One side of the sealing face has been damaged by the drilling of the suspens)
• AP-022  + (Sickle (U-shaped) black stone pendant seal; profile is flat and suspension loop is aligned with the seal body; incised geometric design has a lot of incised lines covering the entire surface with no obvious patterning.)
• AP-023  + (Sickle/U-shaped black stone pendant seal; top edge/side has incised teeth and pierced at the top; incised geometric design is a series of V shaped with vertical lines in the Vs. Seal is complete.)
• CB-010  + (Sub-Round seal face with geometric incisions. Around the edge are short lines roughly aligned with the centre of the seal. At the centre are 3 lines regularly arranged in a * shape. Reverse is flat with a protrusion for the suspension loop.)
• UK-032  + (Sub-oval seal face influenced by design of reverse. Incised design is geometric with a framing border of a single incised line. Reverse is loosely foot shaped with the suspension loop at the top of a domed part of the seal.)
• AP-004  + (Sub-oval/triangular dark green stone penda …
  Sub-oval/triangular dark green stone pendant seal; profile is rounded; pierced at the top; incised geometric design with a central framed unit of square and triangular cross-hatching flanked by incised lines aligned with a central line. Suspension loop is broken.
  a central line. Suspension loop is broken.)
• TJ-002  + (Sub-rectangular seal face with incised geometric grid pattern. The reverse is shaped like a sitting creature, maybe a lion. The seal is pierced on both sides but it is blocked and impossible to tell if both sides meet. Made from indeterminate bone.)
• TB-009  + (Sub-rectangular sealing face incised with a very long horned animal stood in front of two small transverse incisions. The reverse is a low ridge and the seal is pierced transversely)
• TB-008  + (Sub-rectangular sealing face incised with very abstract 4-legged horned creature. The back is ridged with a large transverse suspension piercing which shows evidence of string wear.)
• CB-001  + (Supposedly a Halaf cylinder seal, the chances of it being so are unlikely.)

• AP-026  + (This object is not from Arpachiyah, instea …
  This object is not from Arpachiyah, instead it is from a site about 2 km from Arpachiyah called Gogjeli. It is included here within Arpachiyah for ease of use and no information is available on the site of Gogjeli. Black boar's or bull's head stone pendant seal; pierced through the ears; incised geometric design has a central line with 4 crosses and lots of aligned diagonal lines.
  rosses and lots of aligned diagonal lines.)
• AP-006  + (Trapezoid cream stone pendant seal; profile is rectangular; incised geometric design had 5 deep vertical lines at roughly regular intervals, the spaces between the lines have diamond cross-hatching. Condition is complete.)
• TB-015  + (Triangle/leaf-shaped sealing face with a mostly flat reverse rising in the centre to a thin ridge for the suspension piercing. Design has 4 drilled holes, although 1 of them is mostly off the top of the seal. Bow marks from the drill are also visible. Two)
• AP-021  + (Triangular (lotus-shaped?) black stone pendant seal; profile is flat; incised design has a pair of vertical lines aligned with the point of the triangle with a group of horizontal lines framed by the vertical ones.)
• AP-001  + (Triangular orange baked clay pendant seal; profile is wedge shaped with the top thicker than the bottom; pierced at the top; incised geometric cross-hatched design with dots in the bottom left and right corners. Seal is complete.)
• AP-005  + (Triangular red with dark green mottling st …
  Triangular red with dark green mottling stone pendant seal; profile is wedged shaped, thicker at the top; incised geometric design with a central framed unit of square and triangular cross-hatching flanked by incised lines aligned with a central line. Seal is complete.
  ned with a central line. Seal is complete.)
• AP-024  + (Unfinished green pendant seal; Unpierced, although a platform prepared for piercing exists; No design. Seal is complete.)
• AP-097  + (Unfinished?)
• AP-020  + (V-shaped white pendant seal; suspension loop is aligned with design of seal and profile is essentially flat; incised geometric design has a series of essentially random largely short incised lines. Condition is complete.)
• DZ-094  + (Very Broken)
• DZ-021  + (Very broken)
• DZ-060  + (blank)
• BK-004  + (button-shape, incised on base and sides; perforated; grey marble Y base, parallel lines; two parallel lines on the sides)
• GY-011  + (circular)
• UK-005  + (circular with handle; perforated)
• CB-017  + (circular with handle; perforated or A)
• UK-031  + (circular with ridged back, part of perforation broken off)
• UK-015  + (circular with rounded back, incised on rounded side, perforation through the centre)
• UK-003  + (circular with rounded back; perforated)
• UK-016  + (circular with rounded back; perforated; black stone)
• UK-013  + (circular with rounded back; perforated; black stone)
• TH-001  + (circular with rounded back; perforated; mottled marble)
• BK-002  + (circular with small handle; perforated)
• AP-041  + (circular yellow stone stamp seal; rounded reverse with large handle; seal design is badly broken square cross-hatching, many of the squares have broken off.)
• GY-013  + (circular, possible spindle whorl?)