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)
12004A 30-12-36 (none) (none) [A] Cylinder Seal Black Steatite with this a [B] copper pin, plain tang head. Type II.
12011A (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seals. (A) Lapis, geometric pattern. (B) White translucent calcite decayed & design gone.
12011B (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seals. (A) Lapis, geometric pattern. (B) White translucent calcite decayed & design gone.
12017 30-12-43 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Green stone.
12023 30-12-26 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Steatite. Men fighting.
12029 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Brown & black mottled. chipped at one end. Steatite. Presentation scene: bearded deities included bird god with anthropomorphis torso & head, ornithomorphic below waist. Emblems: (Flying?) fish & water? or lightening?
12030 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene including a deity that appears to be drakomorphic above, ichthyomorphic below waist.
12031 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition. Hero between 2 antelopes & a lion.
12053 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition. Lions fighting.
12058 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis Lazuli, geometric design. 2 registers. [drawing of design]
12063B (none) (none) (none) Group: (A) 17 large lapis double conoid BEADS (B) Cylinder Seal. Shell. Decayed, 2 registers. Seated deity. Presentation. (C) Copper Pin, tip missing, broken. [Drawing of head]
12068B (none) (none) (none) Group: (A) Beads: Large lapis double conoids and a few silver. (B) Cylinder seal, shell, decayed. Rampant animals - crossed. hopeless (C) Silver earring, fragmentary.
12079 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Silver caps (fixed to seal by hollow bitumen stem) Heroes fighting bearded bulls. (with caps).
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?
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.
14216 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell. [drawing]
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).
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]
16127 87-28-1 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Greenish stone. Archaic. Broken in 2 pieces.

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