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.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (none) | (none) | 1858,0101.5 | (none) | (none) | |
| 72 | (none) | (none) | B15192 | Clay mask. The eyes are pierced right through and filled with paste, originally blue: there is a hole at the top for suspension. [drawing 1:1] [Annotated] Phil | |
 | 81 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Paste. Poor condition. Simple criss-cross design. [drawing 1:1] |
| 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] |
| 125 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. [drawing 1:1] |
| 126 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Coarse white marble (?) With black veins, chipped. Two birds: very rough work: late. [drawing 1:1] |
| 130 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell core. One side badly chipped. Subject: 2 figs approaching a seated god: 2 columns of inscription. |
| 141 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Gilgamesh (?) and lion, sacred tree and another human figure. Poor work and much worn. |
| 142 | (none) | (none) | (none) | White shell cylinder seal. 2 animals? Very poor and worn specimen. |
| 167 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White Steatite [crossed out] crystalline marble, burnt: poor condition. Subject: seated god rt; before him an altar, then 2 standing figs l. and remains of column of inscription. |
| 174 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Very poorly engraved. [drawing] |
| 230 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Upper part of = White marble (?) burnt to the consistency of French chalk. Remains of rather fine engraving of 3rd Dynasty style. |
| 234 | (none) | (none) | B15272 | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor. | |
| 311 | (none) | (none) | B14991 | Terracotta bust. of a god wearing the horned tiara and heavy curls on shoulders. Good bold modelling, moulded and finished by hand. Eemuriana [written in red pencil] [drawing 1:1] | |
| 312 | (none) | (none) | B14999 | Terracotta relief. Fragment of; upper part (from pudenda to top) of nude female figure with hands on hreasts; heavy necklaces; hair in horizontal coils; pudenda much emphasized. Poorly molded. | |
| 314 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ivory comb. Frs of : the top decorated with str lines and zigzags. |
| 403 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Terracotta bed. Moulded: fragment. of 2 legs and half of bed left. Mattress represented by curved and zigzag lines in low relief. |
| 405 | (none) | (none) | B14953 | Stone vase-lid. Light steatite. Circular. Knob handle broken: round the top a band of dotted concentric circles.[drawing] |
| 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] |
| 411 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Chalcedony seal. Very roughly engraved with design of two fish. [drawing 1:1] |
| 412 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell amulet. Human face, full front: rough cut. [drawing 1:1] |
| 415 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Rock crystal cylinder seal. Fragment of. Subject: Gilgamesh and the lions: 2 columns of inscription. 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |