We recovered 15 stamp seals at Fistikli Höyük. Ten of them are complete. In two cases, a small piece of the stamping surface is broken off, while in two other cases, the “roll handle” on the back was broken. A number of different kinds of stones served for the production of seals. By far the predominant raw material is a dark green, relatively soft stone, probably steatite. One round seal was made out of a fine-grained yellowish sandstone, while for one of two seals in the form of a “croix formée”, a red-brown stone with thin black lines was used. Finally, a relatively crude, tiny seal was shaped out of soft limestone and another amulet seal out of a harder white stone.
The general shapes of the Fistikli Höyük seals are quite uniform. The preferred shape is a square button seal with a roll handle. Most of these are of a standardized size. A few more complexly shaped button seals occur. One clover-shaped, two round, and the aforementioned croix formée seals have a larger surface for the motif than the square button seals. Seals that significantly deviate by their conical, block or other form from a basic button shape are all smaller than the standard square group.
Seal motifs are all geometric. Most are based on a standard theme which is repeated over the whole stamping surface, a “crossed square,” consisting of cross-hatch with inscribed diagonals. It finds numerous parallels and similarities at other Halaf sites.
Only two seal impressions were discovered. The backside of both clay fragments is chipped off, so that no further information about their use is available. It seems therefore that seals at Fistikli Höyük did not have great value as items for controlling access to economically valuable goods.