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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 9710 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Lapis lazuli Part of one end missing Presentation scene before seated god |
| 10765 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Lapis lazuli Rampant lion fighting Ea-bani; bearded male fighting horned and bearded bull; and a male figure with a bird head fighting a rampant bull |
| 9064 | (none) | (none) | B16898 | Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli Silver core Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant lion and rampant bull respectively. | |
| 9764 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Lapis with gold caps 2 heroes fighting bulls, 2 beasts fighting and an inscription. en-ki-en-du/ dub-sar; Enki-en-du, Scribe (cf. 9765) (HC. 208) |
| 9183 | (none) | (none) | B16854 | Cylinder seal Lapis, with gold caps (the latter rather broken). Subject: Gilgamesh and Eabani. | |
| 9266 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Limestone White Subject not clear. A seated god, a squatting lion, vertical posts, a god behind the bards of a gate? And a second standing god. |
| 9051 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Limestone? White Spread eagle, star above crescent moon, and on either side of the star and crescent, a reclining antelope with very high horns. |
| 9733 | (none) | 1928,1010.244 | (none) | Cylinder seal Limestone? Grey. Subject Lions & gazelles crossed. |
| 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) | |
| 9749 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Marble Mottled- greenish blue Presentation scene before seated god; 3 standing deities and a very well defined palm tree. Attribute: crescent moon. Slightly concave. Surface cracked. Faultily perforated; hole not exactly in centre. |
| 10397 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Mottled marble Black with small brownish spots Unusually large size, Very slightly convex. 4 horned deities bearing offerings of (corn?) to an enthroned deity who holds a triple wisp of (corn?) in his right hand. Behind throne a spouting tree on a stand. Seated god has a short pigtail which curls up at back. Standing gods have hair done up in a double bun at the back, they are bearded; wear a long sleeve-less coat tied by a band at the waist. Last deity has a kaukanes flounced skirt like enthroned deity. The latter has a cloak which covers left arm but leaves right arm exposed. Sargonic Grave. [drawing] |
| 9851 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Mottled marble Imperfectly bored- hole not in centre. Three standing deities saluting a seated deity. Seated deity holds a spear-like weapon in his uplifted right hand. All three approaching deities have a spear, standing upright in ground in front of them, point upwards. Behind throne a flower rising out of a pot. NB. The fact that spears are indicated standing upright in the ground is interesting in connection with material evidence from the graves several of which have an upright spear on one side of the body. |
| 10355 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Mottled Marble Men fighting rampant lions and rampant bulls |
| 8662 | (none) | 1928,1009.45 | (none) | Cylinder seal Pink limestone Decorative design, chevrons and running loops |
| 9166 | (none) | (none) | B16853 | Cylinder seal Pinkish stone Rampant beasts Poor work and rubbed Chipped at base | |
| 9679 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Rock crystal with gold ends: 2 heroes fighting a lion and a bull: between the animals a small winged god: between the men an inscription, effaced: below which a small figure, seated. The central hole is filled with red and white paste in horizontal bands. |
| 9808 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Shell 2 bearded bulls rampant, back to back, 3 standing heroes next to one another- two of them are attacking the bulls; the third stands in between the other two heroes. |
| 8494 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Shell Blackened by fire Two rampant lions crossed on either side 2 rampant antelopes? and between them a naked hero |
| 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 | |
| 10359 | (none) | 1928,1010.240 | (none) | Cylinder Seal Shell Presentation scene Seated god & 3 standing figures Poor condition |
| 10708 | (none) | (none) | B17029 | Cylinder Seal Shell Rampant bird headed men and antelopes | |
| 9069 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Shell Subject indistinct Rampant lion and rampant gazelle. |
| 9567 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Shell Two heroes fighting a lion and a bull. 2 columns of inscription: Gimil-i-li-su; Sangudgis-erim; Gimil-ilisu; Priest of dgisERIM (su for su, as in period of Agade) (HC.203) |
| 9049 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Shell White Curvilinear desig 6 holes partially perforated on body of seal to admit inlay. No trace of inlay left. [drawing] |
| 9050 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Shell White. A seated divinity and 3 standing figures. Poor condition. |