Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation at Uluburun

Uluburun Home, Artifact & Image Gallery, Shipwreck Site Plan


Scarabs & Seals

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Unique gold scarab naming Nefertiti. Nefertiti was the beautiful wife of the heretic 18th Dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (1352-1336 B.C.), the promoter of monotheism in Egypt. (Photo: INA)
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Egyptian steatite plaque (KW 481) inscribed with neatly executed hieroglyphs on both faces referring to the god Ptah with accompanying phrases "Lord of Truth"and "Perfect in Favors". (Photo: INA)
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Jasper scarab depicting a baboon. (Photo: INA)
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Mycenaean steatite lentoid seal(left) and Egyptian steatite plaque. (Photo: INA)
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Steatite scarab with gold frame. (Photo: INA)
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Steatite scarab with gold frame (top). (Photo: INA)
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Egyptian signet ring of electrum cut in half as scrap.(Photo: INA)
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Stone scarabs showing decorative signs(left) and a lion(right). (Photo: INA)
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Mycenaean steatite lentoid seal missing part of its side. (Photo: INA)
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Steatite lentoid bead(left) and amethyst scarab. (Photo: INA)
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Hematite cylinder seal, originally carved during the Old Babylonian period and re-carved during Assyrian times to include a winged griffin and sickle-sword warrior. (Photo: INA)
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Detail of carving on hematite cylinder seal. (Photo: INA)
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Faience cylinder seal of northern Syrian type and its impression. (Photo: INA)
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Faience cylinder seal of northern Syrian type and its impression. (Photo: INA)
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Cassite cylinder seal of quartz. (Photo: INA)
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