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)
55 (none) 1923,1110.191 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Broken in half and chipped down one side. Scene: 3 figures in a row advancing l[eft]. Found with beads round neck of body in larnax burial.
54 (none) 1923,1110.190 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Engraved with scene of worshipper being introduced to a god standing in front of a gate.
518 (none) (none) B15184 Terracotta relief - Complete: greenish pottery. 2 male fig. advancing front. Each has tall feather(?) head-dress, long hair curled over ears, Semitic nose, long beard arranged in 3 rows of short curls and +long straight hair to a point: the right arm by the side, l. across body with in hand the litnus: drapery to knees, crossing legs diagonally. Behind, two legs to make the relief stand upright.
499 (none) (none) B16199 Carnelian seal-stone, shaped as U.486. Subject, couchant sphinx. Strung up on U.500 E [drawing]
498 (none) (none) B15257 Carnelian head of Puzu. Looking very sick.
497 (none) (none) B15250 Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
496 (none) (none) B15255 Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
495 (none) (none) (none) Scarab. White steatite. Inscr. [drawing]
494 (none) 1923,1110.196 (none) Lapis lazuli seal. Scaraboid. Subject [drawing]
493 (none) (none) (none) Lapis lazuli seal, pointed topped, like U 486. Subject, a fish. [drawing]
492 (none) 1923,1110.198 (none) Agate seal. Oval topped. Subject, sphinx. [drawing]
491 (none) 1923,1110.197 (none) Amethystine quartz seal. Pointed on top, like U.486, Subject, sphinx couchant.[drawing]
490 (none) (none) (none) Agate seal. Oblong, oval, topped. Subject [drawing]
489 (none) (none) (none) Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [drawing]
488 (none) (none) (none) Agate seal. Same shape as U.486. subject [drawing]
487 (none) (none) B15256 Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [referencing drawin] [drawing]
486 (none) (none) (none) Chalcedony seal [drawing]
485 (none) (none) B15278 Ivory box-lid. Circular, rebated below to fit onto the top of a vase (U.476?): the upper surface decorated with concentric circles and radiating lines lightly incised, the lower similarly decorated.
450 (none) 1923,1110.146 (none) Ivory comb. Found in fragments and fitted together. Teeth broken away. On the solid part a simple decoration of lines and cross-hatching. [drawing 1:1]
448 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Subject: a god standing and two worshippers one on each side of him. Very poor, scratchy work.
447 (none) (none) (none) Pyramidal seal. Black steatite. one half of Subject: a standing god rt; before him a standing worshipper l: between them a sacred column (?) and a scorpion.
415 (none) (none) (none) Rock crystal cylinder seal. Fragment of. Subject: Gilgamesh and the lions: 2 columns of inscription. Poor scratchy work.
412 (none) (none) (none) Shell amulet. Human face, full front: rough cut. [drawing 1:1]
411 (none) (none) (none) Chalcedony seal. Very roughly engraved with design of two fish. [drawing 1:1]
406 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase-lid. Fr of. The top surface cloisonne for inlay with central rosette and liver pattern round edge. [drawing 1:1]

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