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) |
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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. |