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)
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.
15796 31-17-91 (none) (none) Amulet(?) Terracotta animal. Possibly a tortoise(?). [drawing 1:1]
15815 (none) 1930,1213.343 (none) Incense (?) box. Baked clay. Square. Four legs. Hatched decoration. One leg missing.
1591A 31-16-855 (none) (none) Figurine. Red clay. Moulded. Head and feet broken off. Nude female figure in bold relief.
1609 31-16-875 (none) (none) Figurine. Drab clay; modeled. Female(?) figure with cross-belt (or bandoliers) - legs not indicated: head missing.
16127 87-28-1 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Greenish stone. Archaic. Broken in 2 pieces.
16128B 31-43-309 (none) (none) [A-B] Pair of tortoises. White frit. Criss-cross markings on back end and underside. Pierced for suspension. cf U.16755. [drawing 1:1]
16263 31-43-368 (none) (none) Terracotta Figurine. Grotesque & primitive-looking nude female figure: legs missing: head is strangely bird-like [drawing 1:1]
16289 (none) 1931,1010.528 (none) Miniature clay vase. The body decorated with the figure of a great grotesque man. [drawing 1:1]
16362 (none) 1931,1010.272 (none) Bronze finger ring with oval-shaped bezel.
16402 (none) 1931,1010.398 (none) Terracotta Figurine. Hand modeled, crude type. [drawing 1:1]
16558 (none) (none) (none) Haematite cylinder seal. "O divine Gimil-Sin, "mighty king, "King of Ur; "Ahuni, "the cup-bearer, "is thy servant." H.C. 30/II, 14.
16559B 31-43-56 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 steatite cylinder seals; [E] 1 Shell cylinder seal. Inscriptions illegible.
16559D 31-43-58 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 steatite cylinder seals; [E] 1 Shell cylinder seal. Inscriptions illegible.
16600 (none) 1931,1010.35 (none) Steatite cylinder-seal (not pierced). Warad- ^dSin dumu ha-ma-tum-za (!) (obs. The inscription is not reversed as in ordinary seals. But the second line precedes the first.).
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.
16741 31-43-313 (none) (none) Frit frog. Coarse workmanship. Type see U.16634.
16761 (none) 1931,1010.271 (none) Silver finger Ring. With oval bezel-engraved.
16902A 31-43-383 (none) (none) Terracotta relief. Nude female with hands to breasts. High relief. [drawing 1:1] (A) Broken away at knees; good condition; (B) Fragment head an feet missing.

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