Button seals, different types (I)
(the typology and interpretation follows: Wiese 1996: 52-159 - click on the images for a larger picture)

Gods, symbols of gods and fable animals

images of Hathor, or symbols of Hathor

image of Bes	a dancing god			two Bes shaped gods

dancing Bes shaped god and a lion	Bes shaped god with attributes in the hands	goddess in the shape of a hippopotamus	Horus eye	fable animal

 

Symbols connected to the king

two Horus birds, an ankh sign and a captive/lion under it			hieroglyphs

 

figures of men and parts of human bodies

man with a staff		dancing person		sitting girl	sitting child

two children, sitting in tete-beche order			child with animal

see other button seals

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