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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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. | |
| 12019 | (none) | 1929,1017.366 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| 12084B | (none) | 1929,1017.358 | (none) | Group (A) Copper pin: elongated thin top. [type] I (B) Cylinder seal: shell. Bird-headed men & animals. [additional drawing, possibly map of excavation areas] |
| 12086 | (none) | 1929,1017.379 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Rock crystal. Hero fighting rampant lion; repeated twice. White paste core run down centre of seal. |
| 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? |
| 12094 | (none) | 1928,1010.816 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Painted. Grotesque. Head missing. Black paint round neck and black painted lines running vertically down back and shoulders. | |
| 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. |
| 12542A | (none) | 1935,0113.635 | (none) | [A-T] Box of miscellaneous clay objects from the stratum (cf as U.12505) and some lumps of tablet clay with traces of archaic signs destroyed. |
| 12770 | (none) | 1928,1010.806 | (none) | Clay figurine. Fragment. Hand modelled in dark reddish clay and baked [drawing 1:1] | |
| 12774A | (none) | 1928,1010.736 | (none) | Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals. | |
| 13568 | (none) | 1935,0113.798 | (none) | Clay offering table. Baked. Incised reticulated pattern on stem.. | |
| 13709 | (none) | 1928,1010.880 | (none) | Offering-table. Drab clay. Fragments of with incised decoration. The design is remarkable. Round the base, incised chevrons and cross-hatched triangles. The stem has two long vertical slots on each side of which are the door-symbols: on one side is a tree flanked by the dotted triangle of the female organ: on the other side is a tree on one side of which is a house(?) either built on piles or with the lower part of its walls of channelled masonry. Field note says much smashed. No drawing. [drawing] |