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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7990 | (none) | (none) | B16789 | Cylinder seal of grey mottled stone -- ? fossilised coral. Much worn: subject: crossed goats and 3 persons pouring libations. | |
| 8993 | (none) | (none) | B16875 | Cylinder seal Dark greenish steatite. Very large with fine engraved scene: 3 human figures and 2 man-headed bulls crossed. | |
| 8513 | (none) | (none) | B16869 | Cylinder seal White shell, much decayed, but preserving an inscription in the upper register [drawing of inscription] | |
| 9310 | (none) | (none) | B17009 | Cylinder seal White shell Nude reclining figure, one figure standing facing, and 2 men fighting (?) Short inscription: urd nisaba | |
| 9187 | (none) | (none) | B16871 | Cylinder seal White shell Burnt and reduced to lime. Scene: fighting men and animals. | |
| 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. | |
| 9587 | (none) | (none) | B16948 | Cylinder seal Steatite Green 2 seated deities both sucking straws, the ends of which are in a vase of the champagne type. Behind one throne a standing attendant and behind him a star? on a vertical staff. | |
| 8476 | (none) | (none) | B16887 | Cylinder seal Steatite Black Inscribed but illegible. Two heroes attacking a rampant lion. One grasps him by the tail, the other attacks from the front. | |
| 9263 | (none) | (none) | B16855 | Cylinder seal Steatite Black Geometric decoration | |
| 9261 | (none) | (none) | B16892 | Cylinder seal Shell? 2 seated gods, between them a standing god. Behind one throne a palm tree. | |
| 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] | |
| 10708 | (none) | (none) | B17029 | Cylinder Seal Shell Rampant bird headed men and antelopes | |
| 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 | |
| 9166 | (none) | (none) | B16853 | Cylinder seal Pinkish stone Rampant beasts Poor work and rubbed Chipped at base | |
| 9661 | (none) | (none) | B16874 | Cylinder seal Marble Mottled Slightly concave Inscribed: - 2 lions rampant, crossed: behind each an attacking hero - beyond are two retainers. Upper register: inscription, lower register: rampant gazelle and hero. Inscription /......mu; Lugal-gis; My (?).... Lugal-gis. (HC. 207) | |
| 9183 | (none) | (none) | B16854 | Cylinder seal Lapis, with gold caps (the latter rather broken). Subject: Gilgamesh and Eabani. | |
| 9064 | (none) | (none) | B16898 | Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli Silver core Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant lion and rampant bull respectively. | |
| 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. | |
| 9586 | (none) | (none) | B16947 | Cylinder Seal Haematite Black Seated god greeting 2 other divinities who approach bearing offerings? All wearing the horned headdress. Behind throne a palm tree? Attribute: Cresent moon. | |
| 9721 | (none) | (none) | B17024 | Cylinder seal Haematite Black Copper caps. This seal adhered to copper pin U.9720 Two seated deities, facing on another, from the first a stream of water trickles from the out-stretched left hand; above, crescent moon; second deity holds a cup? in right hand; above him the sun; and third standing deity? faces him. Behind the first deity a standing attendant. | |
| 10364 | (none) | (none) | B16872 | Cylinder Seal Greenish grey marble Hero: on either side a rampant bull and a rampant lion. Attributes: Crescent Moon, and star on two legged pole. | |
| 9688 | (none) | (none) | B16884 | Cylinder seal Green stone In very bad condition Apparently a presentation scene | |
| 9298 | (none) | (none) | B17012 | Cylinder seal Green stone Gilgamesh and Eabani | |
 | 9502 | (none) | (none) | B16873, B16873 | Cylinder seal Green ston A hero fighting a lion and a second fighting a long-horned bull (?): between the animals a star and crescent, between the men a single column of inscription. A-ki-ru-um. (HC.202) |
| 9652 | (none) | (none) | B16857 | Cylinder seal Dark steatite A hero fighting a bull (or wild oryx)? and a lion and a bull fighting. |