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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 12770 | (none) | 1928,1010.806 | (none) | Clay figurine. Fragment. Hand modelled in dark reddish clay and baked [drawing 1:1] | |
| 12774A | (none) | 1928,1010.736 | (none) | Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals. | |
| 13568 | (none) | 1935,0113.798 | (none) | Clay offering table. Baked. Incised reticulated pattern on stem.. | |
| 13709 | (none) | 1928,1010.880 | (none) | Offering-table. Drab clay. Fragments of with incised decoration. The design is remarkable. Round the base, incised chevrons and cross-hatched triangles. The stem has two long vertical slots on each side of which are the door-symbols: on one side is a tree flanked by the dotted triangle of the female organ: on the other side is a tree on one side of which is a house(?) either built on piles or with the lower part of its walls of channelled masonry. Field note says much smashed. No drawing. [drawing] | |
| 14045 | (none) | 1935,0113.801 | (none) | Clay offering table. Badly smashed. Bottom missing. 4 bands of decoration round upper portion, 2 middle bands have incised criss-cross decoration. Top and bottom band consists of incised triangles. | |
| 14216 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Shell. [drawing] |
| 14433 | (none) | 1930,1213.367, 1930,1213.367 | (none) | Bead. Red clay bugle. Made in imitation of shell with spiral band round (1 end broken). Not in catalog. | |
| 14448 | (none) | 1930,1213.369 | (none) | Clay bead. Fragment. Tubular, with ridges round the end. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 14931 | (none) | 1930,1213.345 | (none) | Spindle whorl. Drab clay. Decorated with punched dots and slashes. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 14958 | (none) | 1930,1213.332 | (none) | Fragment of zoomorphic clay vase. Light red clay. Only the back preserved, which should be restored as above. [drawing] | |
| 15138 | (none) | 1930,1213.280 | (none) | Tumbler. Baked clay. With two small bosses round upper portion, also decorated with incised lines. The bosses were probably breasts and the tumbler may have been for use in the fertility cult. Both bosses are on one side of the vase only 100 apart. Type: CCCXXVI. | |
| 15349 | 31-16-738 | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine. Fragment. Female figure, from waist to ankles. Greenish clay: round waist traces of belt in black paint. [drawing] | |
| 15379 | 31-16-734 | (none) | (none) | Clay figurine. Female figure, nude, with hands on waist. She wears a high headdress, or high coiffure, originally covered with bitumen: traces remain of black apint in the eyes and of red paint on the cheeks. | |
| 15385 | 31-16-733 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. A nude female standing, with the hands resting on the waist. The high head is covered with bitumen to represent hair (this preserved). | |
| 15486 | (none) | 1930,1213.25 | (none) | Bronze finger ring. Flat oval bezel. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 15493 | (none) | 1930,1213.142 | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Now dull yellow. glazed. Incised with design of sphinx. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15715 | (none) | 1930,1213.331 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Childs rattle in shape of statuette of Boar. | |
| 15740 | 31-16-744 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Buffalo(?) head. Neck hollowed, originally decorating a pot(?). | |
| 15742 | 31-16-978 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Horse and rider. Fragment. Horse has a pronounced mane. Legs of horse and most of rider missing. |