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)
11743C (none) 1929,1017.266 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11897 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: in each, men & various animals fighting.
11904 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Gold. Of thin metal pressed over a core of some other material: at the ends, shell caps, of which one is missing. Above: the royal family feasting. Below: harpist & other musicians.
11906 (none) 1929,1017.47 (none) Frontlet. An ellipse of gold plate engraved with an 8-pointed star of the conventional type: at each end a wire for attachment, one ending in a loop, the other in a wooden button.
11938 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers in each, men & animals.
11957 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Translucent white quartzite(?)
11958 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. Tree & buffalo of Mohenjo daro type.
11959 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. hematite (broken)
11973 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Geometric design.
11981 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. 2 men fighting a lion.
11983A (none) (none) (none) [A] Cylinder Seal. Dark steatite. 3 [regetration? illegible] gods & attendants. With it [B] copper pin with plain rounded head.
11987 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene.
11990 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Greenish white calcite, translucent. [Annotated] Inscription: Kalam-il (DU =?) ra-gab =Kalam-il envoy (or the like). [Annotated] HC..17.
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.
12019 (none) 1929,1017.366 (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition.
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.
12032 (none) 1929,1017.390 (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis Lazuli. Exceptionally minute (Palm?) tree, deities, & 2 (snakes?) or running water?
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).

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