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)
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.
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.
18365 33-35-176 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 3 standing figures.
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.
11895 30-12-15 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 ibex walking.
11899 30-12-21 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Geometrical design.
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.
11896 30-12-31 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Pale green calcite. (1 side decayed) human-headed bulls & heroes fighting.
17726 32-40-330 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. 2 men fighting a lion.
18248 33-35-172 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Two men fighting a lion. Poor work and in poor condition.
7894 (none) (none) B16881 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated Nannar. Nannar and minor deity wear flounced kaunakes skirt and low head dress. Votary shaven and shorn wearing long skirt fringed in front. Behind votary a rampant lion between 4 vertical lines, which may represent the doors of a shrine? Attributes: crescent moons one against the other as on the burnt bricks of Sin-Iddinam.
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.
17014 31-43-65 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Miniature. Gilgamesh and Eabani fighting rampant lion.
12023 30-12-26 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Steatite. Men fighting.
11889 30-12-7 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell (in poor condition) A man, a lion, a bull & a gazelle fighting.
11978 30-12-9 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. Decayed, but design visible of fighting animals.
19486 35-1-19 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Design of men ovals horizontally placed
8897 (none) (none) B16868 Cylinder seal. White shell. Seated goddess with star and moon and 4 standing figures.
8056A (none) (none) B16882 Cylinder seals of white shell. All in very bad condition. A: 4 animals, the centre two heraldically crossed, and a tree? or man? B: unrecognisable. C: unrecognisable.
8056B (none) (none) B16891 Cylinder seals of white shell. All in very bad condition. A: 4 animals, the centre two heraldically crossed, and a tree? or man? B: unrecognisable. C: unrecognisable.
11452A (none) (none) (none) Group. Consisting of [A] (1) a cylinder seal of red baked clay with white slip: in poor condition but interesting for its fabric. It is attached to part of a copper pin. Inscription EN-dUtu(?); [B] (2) a few beads of lapis and silver, mixed types; [C] (3) a silver hair-ring, 5 spiral coils of thin wire; [D] (4) a copper pin, point missing.
17806C (none) (none) (none) Groups: From one burial. (A) Gold fillet, of narrow thin ribbon, twisted. (B) [B.1-.2] A pair of gold earrings, each consisting of two complete earrings intertwined, of the small hollow lunate type: in each case, one earring is fatter than the other: D.'s 15mm and 13mm respectively. One hoop is broken. (C) Cylinder seal, lapis lazuli, standing, human figures roughly cut. (D) Gold finger ring, hollow tube pressed in along the periphery thus [drawing]. (E) Beads: gold and carnelian, lapis and silver diamonds: gold and carnelian barrels and double conoids; mixed types, large lentoids, bugles, balls and double conoids of carnelian, agate, lapis. For order see field notes.
496 (none) (none) B15255 Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
497 (none) (none) B15250 Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
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
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