A technique of decoration where figures, motifs, or designs are cut into an object.  

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
9026 (none) (none) B16876 Cylinder seal. Marble: green and white. A winged god wearing conical cap and a straight flowing skirt which is represented by vertical parallel lines, holds left arm slightly upraised while apparently addressing a second naked god. The second god is engaged in felling to the ground an unwinged god who is represented as utterly unbalanced, arms flung downward behind the head, head and feet drooping to the ground, middle of the body uppermost. Beyond: a third winged divinity stands over the back of a crouching man, right foot upon the neck, left foot upon the rump. The winged divinity also lays his right hand upon the head of a naked kneeling suppliant, and his left upon the head of a similar suppliant who kneels upon the left knee only. Bold but rather coarse cutting. Subject not hitherto found upon any cylinder seal from Ur.
11899 30-12-21 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Geometrical design.
11895 30-12-15 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 ibex walking.
7956 (none) (none) B16856 Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli: tall slender type broken in antiquity; mended. Two registers: above, 2 worshipers approaching a seated goddess with crescent. Below, 3 worshipers approaching a seated goddess with star; behind her a tree.
18365 33-35-176 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 3 standing figures.
8006 (none) (none) B16889 Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers: above, 2 seated figures, table and door. Below, 2 animals? Very deep cutting and most primitive style.
10448A (none) (none) B16727 Cylinder Seal. Lapis lazuli, with 2 registers. Figures sitting, drinking and eating, with standing attendants, and inscription: -A-bar(a)-gi(n). Found on the near side of the box with beads and other small objects.
18450 33-35-177 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey stone. Introduction scene with 1 seated and 2 standing figures and 2 columns of inscription: the figures much erased.
17877 32-40-323 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity & standing attendant. Poor cutting.
16127 87-28-1 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Greenish stone. Archaic. Broken in 2 pieces.
11961 30-12-28 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Green stone. 2 Heroes fighting a lion & a bull.
12017 30-12-43 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Green stone.
7583 (none) (none) B16903 Cylinder seal. Fragment. Marble, White Scene of worship. Heavily draped god seated on throne without a back holding in outstretched left hand a bird? Above double crescent moon? & between seated god and advancing figure a second bird? Second advancing fig. clean shaven, & heavily draped in long flairing skirt, behind him a goose? and behind the goose a goddess? in a flounced kaunakes skirt, both arms upraised? Behind the throne of the seated god Gilgamesh? with tail.
234 (none) (none) B15272 Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor.
8714 (none) (none) B17033 Cylinder seal. Crystal. Two registers. Above: Male figure approaching from behind a lion? in front of the lion a fallen gazelle and in front of the gazelle a winged dragon. Below: A winged dragon, and second similar? and a rampant gazelle?
18218 33-35-171 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Carnelian. Broken and incomplete. [drawing] Conventional design.
6065 (none) (none) B16300 Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 3 grooves in middle divider scene, seated god and introduction of votary from 4 swans on lower half. About BC 2700. E.
9028 (none) (none) B16859 Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 rampant lions crossed, on either side of them a rampant bull - also a star.
7989 (none) (none) B16864 Cylinder seal. Black steatite with silver caps. Subject Gilgamesh and Eabana fighting bulls. (N.B.) part of the linen thread was preserved in the hole)
14216 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell. [drawing]
8991 (none) (none) B16859A Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark grey mottled. Scene: Gilgamesh, Eabani, lion and bull.
8981 (none) (none) B16852 Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: below: 1 man, fighting animals. Above, human figure with rampant animals on each side and inscription of NIN-TUR-NIN.
8053 (none) (none) B16866 Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two registers. Above: two seated deities with an attendant between them & facing one of them, two worshippers. Below: a door? a seated deity & 3 worshippers. Very archaic style, figures with birdlike heads.
6983 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 4 standing figures. Attributes: crescent moons. About BC 2000. B.
8917 (none) (none) B16867 Cylinder seal. Green Stone Above, string pattern [drawing] Below, 2 seated and 2 standing gods
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