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 We will try and keep an updated list of major collections on this page. Numbers are for the most part estimates. They are based either on online catalogs, old publications, or information provided by staff at the various collections.\\
-Louvre Museum, Paris: estimated 5000 seals\\
+Louvre Museum, Paris: estimated 10,000 seals\\
-British Museum, London: estimated 3000 seals\\
+British Museum, London: estimated 5,000 seals\\
+Add: Lambert bequest: c. 2,000 seals\\
-Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris: c. 2000 seals\\
+Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris: c. 1,000 cylinder seals\\
+Add: c. 1,000 stamp seals\\
 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: c. 1100 seals\\
-Vorderasiatische Museum, Berlin: more than 2000 seals\\
+Vorderasiatische Museum, Berlin: more than 2,000 seals\\
-Oriental Institute, University of Chicago c. 2000 seals\\
+Oriental Institute, University of Chicago c. 2,000 seals\\
 (c. 1050 cylinder seals and c. 900 stamp seals)\\
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 University Museum, Pennsylvania: c. 2500\\
-Current total: +26,000 seals\\
+Current total: +34,000 seals\\
+===== Minor collections of seals =====
+Oriental Museum, University of Durham, Durham, UK: c. 100 seals\\
+World Museum, Liverpool: c. 130 seals "and other objects"\\
 Click {{::workshop_seal_collections_copy.pdf|here }} for an overview of some major collections as presented by Klaus Wagensonner at the 2014 CDLI workshop "Digitizing in the Round".