A duck shaped seal (white chalcedony 2.1 cm), these seals are often considered as Neo Babylonian. In fact there are several impressions from them on Assyrian cuneiform tablets from Kuyunjik (palace quarter of Niniveh) – see Michell/Searight 2007: No.126: 636 B.C., 181: 620/619 B.C, 206: Neo Assyrian, not precisely dated. L. Jakob Rost lists 4 duck shaped seals from Assur. This proves, they already were in use during the time of the Assyrian empire. See parallel in the Newell collection.

This is a scaraboid Neo-Assyrian/Neo-Babylonian stamp seal (chalcedony 1,7 cm) It depicts a winged sphinx. Please see examples from the Near Eastern Museum, Berlin found in Babylon and Assur. L. Jakob-Rost notes, that scaraboid seals are more common in Assur, while conoid seals more frequently appear in Babylon.

For a similar impression (crouching winged sphinx) on a docket from Nimrud see: Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in The British Museum, Stamp Seals III, No. 88, precisely dated to 660 B.C.

Conoids of this group came into use in the Near East around 1200 B.C. Often goats or deers with suckling calves are shown sometimes with simplified scorpions. These two examples were found in Israel, diameter of the smaller example: 1.1 cm. Interestingly they appeared in Cyprus, Syria and Palestine at the same time. Some scholars believe, they can be attributed to migration waves at the end of the Late Bronze Age (Sea Peoples). Note the parallel from Megiddo.