clay sealing

On the mummies of the man, the woman and the three girls, the wrapping had been additionally secured with clay sealings, using different sealstones.

This is established by the existence of two cylinder seals identifying him and four or five fragments of clay sealings bearing his name.

His name appears in inscriptions on stone vessels and clay sealings in large numbers from his tomb at Sakkara.

The name Shiraz also appears on clay sealings found at a 2nd-century CE Sassanid ruin, east of the city.

It contained ivory tablets, vase fragments and clay sealings bearing the name of Pharaoh Hor-Aha and his possible wife or mother, Neithhotep.

In addition, some of the clay sealings have traces of vegetable matter adhering to them, implying that they were attached, possibly as signatures, to documents written on some perishable material.

The only artifacts known for Shepseskare's reign are several clay sealings from Abusir, where the king may have been buried, and two cylinder seals, according to the respected Czech Egyptologist Miroslav Verner.

He is known from the Bhitari silver-copper seal of his grandson Kumaragupta III and Nalanda clay sealings of his sons Narasimhagupta and Budhagupta and his grandson Kumaragupta III.

Other finds included about 150 clay sealings (bullae) and a rich assemblage of imported exotic items including artifacts of basalt and obsidian, beads, sea shells, Nilotic shell, and a few pottery sherds of the Ubaid culture of north Syria.

In the Nalanda fragmentary clay sealing he is mentioned as the Maharajadhiraja and a paramabhagavata (devout worshipper of Vishnu), while the Gunaighar copper plate inscription mentions him as the Maharaja and a Bhagavan Mahadeva padanudhyato (devotee of Shiva).