Assyria. Seals showing method of mounting; Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Museum Archives, Goodyear Archival Collection
The reference below, Garbini, covers many of the following categories of cylinder seal.
Dominique Collon's book First Impressions, which is dedicated to the topic, has over 1000 illustrations.
A categorization of cylinder seals:
- Akkadian cylinder seals.
- Akkadian seal, ca. 2300 BC, stone seal w/ modern impression. See National Geographic Ref. The glyptic (the Scenes) shows "God in barge", people, and offerings.
- Assyrian cylinder seals.
- Cypriote Cylinder Seals.
- Egyptian cylinder seals.
- Hittite cylinder seals.
- Clay envelope usage, etc.; see Kultepe.
- Kassite (the Kassites), cylinder seals.
- Mittanian cylinder seals.
- Old Babylonian cylinder seals.
- Persian cylinder seals; see Darius I, Robinson ref.
- Proto-Elamite cylinder seals.
- Sumerian cylinder seals.