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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
 | 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.). |
| 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. | |
| 16922 | (none) | 1931,1010.400 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Moulded and then worked up by hand with extra clay added; nude female figure with left hand holding object to breast, and right hand extended holding a saucer. Fragment only, broken off below waist. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16939E | (none) | 1931,1010.457 | (none) | Terracotta relief of nude female with hands below breasts. (A) Complete. (B) Broken but complete except for feet; (C) Broken away at knees, poor cast. (D) Broken away at knees, poor cast; (E) Complete, the legs cut apart after moulding (F) Complete; (G) Mould taken only to navel and the cast then rounded off (probably same mould poor); (H) Complete (as above). All the above are of very lightly fired clay, red or yellowish grey, and form a group distinct from nearly all the other terracottas. They might be modern casts from an ancient mould. Type III c.Y | |
| 16957 | (none) | 1931,1010.509 | (none) | Terracotta relief. A rams fleece with a head attached(?) hand-modeled. (1) Complete except for surface chip at top corner. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 16965 | 31-43-421 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Horned goddess, draped standing between two geese; streams of water; fish, suns and stars in background. (A) complete and good impression. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 16996 | 31-43-371 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine, fragment of female figure from chest to feet. Very primitive style. cf. Type IIIb. Flat and board-like. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17001 | 31-43-590, 31-43-590 | (none) | (none) | Vase. Baked clay. Light drab. Neck inscribed. (NIG-GA makkur) ^dSin. Possibly a proper name but more probably means property of Sin, the pot being intended for the reception of offerings to that god. Also a neck a crescent and a gryphon. Inscription and design engraved after baking. Persian. | |
| 17014 | 31-43-65 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Miniature. Gilgamesh and Eabani fighting rampant lion. | |
| 17084 | (none) | 1931,1010.539 | (none) | Vase. Baked clay. With 4 hug handles and incised decoration. Type 1)LXVIII. =L. | |
| 17138A | 31-43-328 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta demon's head in very high relief. (A) Almost complete = good impression. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17161 | 31-43-379 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta relief. Nude female figure with hands clasped below breasts. Peculiarly coarse and violent type. (A) Fragment broken away at waist. [drawing 1:1] |