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)
17186 31-43-353 (none) (none) Clay ram's head. Hand modelled, the fleece done in applique (snowman technique). [drawing]
17190 31-43-315 (none) (none) Terracotta bird. Hand-modelled and coarsely engraved. [drawing].
17221 19311010.54 1931,1010.535 (none) Clay vessel. Fragment. Inscribed Ur-^d Iskur, under the following symbol.
17223 (none) 1931,1010.67 (none) Steatite plaque-pendant (with holder at top perforated for suspension. Phoenician inscription. Not illustrated. [drawing]
(none) 32-40-304 (none) (none) [Unknown]
17302 (none) 1935,0113.394 (none) Vase. Baked clay. Greenish grey. Incised decoration with white paste filling in the incisions. Part missing [drawing 4:5]
17726 32-40-330 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. 2 men fighting a lion.
17744 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Clay. Half standing figure holding bow shaped axe in one hand [and sistrum in other has been crossed out]; standing figure with snake (?) in one hand and sistrum in other, circular cable above head; half seated figure holdling 3 spouted water pot (?); broken.
17797 32-40-345 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Shell. One side flattened and rough representation of animal drilled and scratched on. [drawing 1:1]
17806C (none) (none) (none) Groups: From one burial. (A) Gold fillet, of narrow thin ribbon, twisted. (B) [B.1-.2] A pair of gold earrings, each consisting of two complete earrings intertwined, of the small hollow lunate type: in each case, one earring is fatter than the other: D.'s 15mm and 13mm respectively. One hoop is broken. (C) Cylinder seal, lapis lazuli, standing, human figures roughly cut. (D) Gold finger ring, hollow tube pressed in along the periphery thus [drawing]. (E) Beads: gold and carnelian, lapis and silver diamonds: gold and carnelian barrels and double conoids; mixed types, large lentoids, bugles, balls and double conoids of carnelian, agate, lapis. For order see field notes.
17855 (none) 1932,1008.254 (none) Terracotta head of a ram? Crudely hand modelled. Broken off at the shoulders. Kassite.
17877 32-40-323 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity & standing attendant. Poor cutting.
17946 32-40-50 (none) (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing]
17955 (none) 1932,1008.282 (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17961 32-40-49 (none) (none) Fragment of incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17962 (none) 1932,1008.281 (none) Fragment of incense burner. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17974 (none) 1932,1008.284 (none) Fragment of incense table. Clay. [drawing 1:1]
17986 32-40-48 (none) (none) Incense burner. Clay. [drawing]
18087 32-40-30 (none) (none) Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled, snowman technique. Nude female figure standing full face. Fragment, the legs missing. The hands clasped upon breast.
18099 (none) 1933,1013.240 (none) Terracotta bed. The corners project: the string mattress rendered by incised lines. The corners chipped off.
18218 33-35-171 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Carnelian. Broken and incomplete. [drawing] Conventional design.
18248 33-35-172 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Two men fighting a lion. Poor work and in poor condition.
18273 33-35-8 (none) (none) Incense burner. Clay. With incised checker pattern on sides. ht. 0085 sq. 008
18284 33-35-170 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Facetted conical: chalcedony. Persian type. Two standing figures worshipping before an altar: crescent above.
18307 (none) 1933,1013.235 (none) Jeweller's trial piece. Fragment of a large pot of of light drab clay on which is roughly scratched the design for a cylinder seal. Subject: seated god and standing god introducing a man behind whom is an ostrich (?).

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