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

Objects: Incised Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
12023 30-12-26 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Steatite. Men fighting.
12029 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Brown & black mottled. chipped at one end. Steatite. Presentation scene: bearded deities included bird god with anthropomorphis torso & head, ornithomorphic below waist. Emblems: (Flying?) fish & water? or lightening?
12030 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene including a deity that appears to be drakomorphic above, ichthyomorphic below waist.
12031 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition. Hero between 2 antelopes & a lion.
12032 (none) 1929,1017.390 (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis Lazuli. Exceptionally minute (Palm?) tree, deities, & 2 (snakes?) or running water?
12053 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition. Lions fighting.
12058 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis Lazuli, geometric design. 2 registers. [drawing of design]
12063B (none) (none) (none) Group: (A) 17 large lapis double conoid BEADS (B) Cylinder Seal. Shell. Decayed, 2 registers. Seated deity. Presentation. (C) Copper Pin, tip missing, broken. [Drawing of head]
12068B (none) (none) (none) Group: (A) Beads: Large lapis double conoids and a few silver. (B) Cylinder seal, shell, decayed. Rampant animals - crossed. hopeless (C) Silver earring, fragmentary.
12079 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Silver caps (fixed to seal by hollow bitumen stem) Heroes fighting bearded bulls. (with caps).
12084B (none) 1929,1017.358 (none) Group (A) Copper pin: elongated thin top. [type] I (B) Cylinder seal: shell. Bird-headed men & animals. [additional drawing, possibly map of excavation areas]
12086 (none) 1929,1017.379 (none) Cylinder Seal. Rock crystal. Hero fighting rampant lion; repeated twice. White paste core run down centre of seal.
12087 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Very rough deep cutting on an irregular cylinder. Criss-cross markings; and a design possibly intended to represent a pair of scales?
12094 (none) 1928,1010.816 (none) Terracotta figurine. Painted. Grotesque. Head missing. Black paint round neck and black painted lines running vertically down back and shoulders.
12100 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell, decayed. Rampant stags and bulls. Hopeless.
1211 (none) (none) B15695 Terra cotta face or mask, broken away from rest of object. Resembles Greek comic mask, but may be face of Pazuzu. [drawing] P Photo 174
12112A (none) (none) (none) 2 Cylinder seals & copper pin. (A) Steatite greenish: 2 registers; above, deer on mountains; below, men fighting animals. Poor cutting. (B) Shell, decayed. Figures & animals. Hopeless no photograph (C) Copper pin plain.
12114 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell. Decayed . Rampant lions, crossed, hero naked, spread eagle, & in an upper register 2 men in sheep skin skirts.
123 (none) (none) B15280 Bronze bowl. Upper part on one side broken, but virtually all frs. there and fitting together. Metal in good condition. Near the rim on the outside is a sun and moon pattern. [drawing]
1247 (none) (none) B15698 Portion terracotta model probably the head (or foot) of a bed, of which 2 legs remain. The head is decorated inside, quarterly with low reliefs of geese or ducks, and cocks. P. [drawing]
125 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. [drawing 1:1]
12542A (none) 1935,0113.635 (none) [A-T] Box of miscellaneous clay objects from the stratum (cf as U.12505) and some lumps of tablet clay with traces of archaic signs destroyed.
12542E (none) 1935,0113.763 (none) [A-T] Box of miscellaneous clay objects from the stratum (cf as U.12505) and some lumps of tablet clay with traces of archaic signs destroyed.
12542F (none) 1935,0113.764 (none) [A-T] Box of miscellaneous clay objects from the stratum (cf as U.12505) and some lumps of tablet clay with traces of archaic signs destroyed.
12542G (none) 1935,0113.765 (none) [A-T] Box of miscellaneous clay objects from the stratum (cf as U.12505) and some lumps of tablet clay with traces of archaic signs destroyed.

Share

Email | Edit | Build Search


Parent Terms

Decoration > Subtraction > Incised