Incised
Technique of decoration where designs are cut into an object.
A technique of decoration where figures, motifs, or designs are cut into an object.
Objects: Incised Export: JSON - XML - CSV Clay Seals and Sealings
Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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![]() | 6983 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 4 standing figures. Attributes: crescent moons. About BC 2000. B. |
![]() | 7895 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed with the names of three divinities: ^dNI?-TUR-KU? ^dNin-dul, ^dAya. Two heavily draped divinities greeting one another, between them one line of inscription. Behind the minor deity a second line of inscription. Behind this an attendant carrying a club? Behind, a third line and a second attendant, hands clasped at waist. |
497 | (none) | (none) | B15250 | Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing] | |
496 | (none) | (none) | B15255 | Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing] | |
487 | (none) | (none) | B15256 | Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [referencing drawin] [drawing] | |
234 | (none) | (none) | B15272 | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor. | |
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. | |
![]() | 7027 | (none) | (none) | B16301 | Seal. White steatite. Round. Hole perforated horizontally through hemispherical sides. Flat on one side, hemispherical on the other. Hemispherical side has 3 grooves 0002 wide in all bisecting it and concentric circles decoration, 4 in all, 2 on either side of the bisecting line. On flat side in middle enthroned Nannar both hands supporting a post with a crescent moon which is also supported by a bull-man. Behind the throne a similar bull-man also supporting a crescent moon on a post, and below the throne a bull with high horns, crescent shaped. Bull-men (Eabani) are ithyphallic. Hair on legs of Eabani. E. Before 3000 BC. |
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. | |
10872 | (none) | (none) | B16728 | Cylinder Seal Lapis 2 registers: above, 2 seated figures facing with three attendants standing; below, (shrine?) (or table?) with standing servitor, a harpist and 2 other standing figures facing him, a servant, a seated figure and an attendant. | |
10530 | (none) | (none) | B16747 | Cylinder Seal Shell Inscribed Naked bird-headed hero with sharp upstanding hair resembling plumes pulls a rampant antelope by the horns; before the antelope a pair of rampant lions crossed and beyond the lions a rampant ram reversed-head downwards. Below the ram a scorpion. Inscription reserved on an upper register: Lugal-sa(g)-pad-da). HC 211 | |
7990 | (none) | (none) | B16789 | Cylinder seal of grey mottled stone -- ? fossilised coral. Much worn: subject: crossed goats and 3 persons pouring libations. | |
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. | |
9166 | (none) | (none) | B16853 | Cylinder seal Pinkish stone Rampant beasts Poor work and rubbed Chipped at base | |
9183 | (none) | (none) | B16854 | Cylinder seal Lapis, with gold caps (the latter rather broken). Subject: Gilgamesh and Eabani. | |
9263 | (none) | (none) | B16855 | Cylinder seal Steatite Black Geometric decoration | |
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. | |
9652 | (none) | (none) | B16857 | Cylinder seal Dark steatite A hero fighting a bull (or wild oryx)? and a lion and a bull fighting. | |
9976 | (none) | (none) | B16858 | Seal White marble Oval: rounded top, flat base on which figures of animals roughly done with a drill [drawing] 1:1 | |
9028 | (none) | (none) | B16859 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 rampant lions crossed, on either side of them a rampant bull - also a star. | |
8991 | (none) | (none) | B16859A | Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark grey mottled. Scene: Gilgamesh, Eabani, lion and bull. | |
9262 | (none) | (none) | B16860 | Cylinder seal Steatite Green. Slightly concave. A god standing between two portals, the left foot raised and resting upon the mountain top, the right foot rigid- as if in the attitude of ascending? His left hand is upraised and in it he holds a feather whisk?? His head is turned backward in contemplation of a minute human figure crouching in the attitude of subjection. The god's right hand is extended immediately above the head of the victim that he has crushed. Oblique to the go are three concentric wavy lines above the right shoulder - possibly representing lightening? The god wears a horned headdress. A second god also wearing a horned headdress, long hair falling below the shoulders and ending in a knot? and a skirt descending to the feet, approaches one of the portals and touches it with hands as if about to open it. | |
8713 | (none) | (none) | B16862 | Cylinder seal Shell, highly polished Geometric design. Triangles, short straight lines running parallel to one another and designs resembling a coiling serpent [drawing of serpent shape] | |
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) | |
![]() | 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. |