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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 | 8367 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers: Above, seated figure with attendant behind, drinking through a tube: then figure making offerings to a seated figure behind where are 2 attendants. Below: gate of shrine, man opening it(?) and man carrying a sheep to it. Then a standing attendant and 2 seated figures facing each other and drinking through tubes. Fine archaic work. |
| 8345B | (none) | 1928,1009.42 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Hero grasping rampant lion by the tail. In front of the lion an antelope and second hero, a second antelope rampant and a second lion rampant. |
| 8053 | (none) | (none) | B16866 | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two registers. Above: two seated deities with an attendant between them & facing one of them, two worshippers. Below: a door? a seated deity & 3 worshippers. Very archaic style, figures with birdlike heads. |
| 8981 | (none) | (none) | B16852 | Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: below: 1 man, fighting animals. Above, human figure with rampant animals on each side and inscription of NIN-TUR-NIN. | |
| 8339 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis. decorative design. [drawing] |
| 8342 | (none) | 1928,1009.26 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Mottled grey steatite. Subject: a seated god, with an attendant behind his chair and 3 personages upright in front of him: all wear the horned headdress, so it cannot be the presentation scene. Good, bold work. |
| 8388 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell? Burnt and blackened: much defaced. Two registers. In each 3 gazelles: the registers in inverse directions. |
| 8425 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite Black Scene of worship? Primitive in style. Figure with both hands up raised approached by figure carrying an offering? Behind the votary an introducing deity? right arm upraised. |
| 8093 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark fading to yellow. Introduction scene: a seated deity, a minor god, and 2 worshippers. |
| 8991 | (none) | (none) | B16859A | Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark grey mottled. Scene: Gilgamesh, Eabani, lion and bull. | |
| 8094 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. Burnt? or decayed. Scene of Gilgamesh with the lion and Eabani with the bull. Very much effaced. |
| 7954 | (none) | 1928,1009.35 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli, with one gold cap. Damaged, chipped in lower register. Two registers; above, 4 figures approaching a seated deity; below, 3 figures (one broken away) approaching the seated deity behind whom is a crescent moon on a staff. |
| 8800 | (none) | 1928,1009.51 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. Yellowish. Crescent moon on post and 3 errect figures with right hands upraised approaching to worship. |
| 14216 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Shell. [drawing] |
| 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? |
| 7989 | (none) | (none) | B16864 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite with silver caps. Subject Gilgamesh and Eabana fighting bulls. (N.B.) part of the linen thread was preserved in the hole) | |
| 9028 | (none) | (none) | B16859 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 rampant lions crossed, on either side of them a rampant bull - also a star. | |
| 6065 | (none) | (none) | B16300 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 3 grooves in middle divider scene, seated god and introduction of votary from 4 swans on lower half. About BC 2700. E. | |
| 7026 | (none) | 1927,0527.190 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Fragmentary. Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting winged dragon. 2100 BC Text: E-hursag (12) |
| 7021 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed: Gilgamesh and Enkidu attacking rampant lion. One pulls the lion by the tail from behind, the other stabs with the sword in front. Scorpion. Inscription: Lud Nin-shubur. About BC 2100. Text: E-hursag(12). B. |
| 7020 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed: Illegible. Gilgamesh and Enkidu attacking rampant lion; former grasps lion by tail from behind, the other stabs it with sword from in front. About BC 2100. text: E-Hursag(12). B. |
| 6593 | (none) | 1927,0527.191 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Introducing a worshipper to a standing god. About BC 2200. |
| 12030 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene including a deity that appears to be drakomorphic above, ichthyomorphic below waist. |
| 448 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Subject: a god standing and two worshippers one on each side of him. Very poor, scratchy work. |
| 125 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. [drawing 1:1] |