ANCIENT SEAL BEADS

Most seals are beads as seen on the above picture with at least one flat, engraved side.
It produces a mirror image after first being pressed into sealing wax or clay or inked and then put on paper.
The purpose was to signify the owner. The mere ownership of a seal indicated a high social position in society.
Seals were used up to the early 19th century.

 
  Ancient Swastika seal

    
20 * 18 * 15 mm
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Ancient eight spoked Dharma 'Wheel' seal

  
28 * 25 * 16 mm
A Buddhist Dharma Wheel


A strange seven spoked wheel seal

  
33 * 13 * 5 mm


Royal Mesopotamian Lion Seal

   
18 * 18 * 17 mm

Lion seal from the Persian Empire 550-330 BC

The Lion on the seal is in the same
position as the  Achaemenid Golden Lion below:



In ancient Mesopotamia the Lion was a symbol of Kingship.
Only the King or his administration was allowed to use the lion as a seal.
The lion was a royal animal. Only the Kings or the Noble men around him
were allowed to keep or hunt lions.
 

Royal Sassanian Lion Seal Beads

  
22 * 18 * 11 mm


 
15 * 12 * 9 mm




The Gayomard Seal Bead

    
22 * 20 * 15 mm



In Sasanian Iran, AD 224-642, every free man was obliged to wear a stamp seal.
These stamp seals were often depicting astrological symbols. The seal displayed above shows
the constellation Orion with Sirius, also called the Dog Star.

In the ancient Zorastrian mythology,  the first mortal human ancestor is called Gayomard.
After  Gayamard was killed he was guided over the Bridge of Separation by the light of Sirius
who was no other than his faithful dog, Yellow Ears.
Since Gayamard escorts the dead to the underworld.

Sassanian Warrior

 
16 * 15 * 12 mm



Sassanian Warrior Head

  
13 * 12 * 8 mm





Sassanian Scorpion seal Beads

    
17 * 15 * 14 mm



  
15 * 15 * 10 mm


 
15 * 13 * 11 mm
This corpion seal bead is made in the Indian translucent moonstone.
I have added light to make the translucent hine come more out.


Mother Goddess Seal Bead

   
30 * 20 * 20 mm
An ancient and a very rare bead seal from the Himalayas - period around 600 AD.
The upper part of the seal depicts two feet - the feet of the Divine Mother Goddess.
The lower part is a language - most probably the ancient Pandu Lapi.
 

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