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)
18365 33-35-176 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 3 standing figures.
18391 33-35-56 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Hand modelled, crude, of an animal. On the right shoulder an incised sign. [drawing of sign] (P.) Pl.44 vol. IV
18450 33-35-177 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey stone. Introduction scene with 1 seated and 2 standing figures and 2 columns of inscription: the figures much erased.
18606 (none) 1933,1013.249a (none) Clay vase, painted with red wash, burnished. Type JN.j.12. Very badly smashed.
18702 33-35-27 (none) (none) Terracotta figure. Hand modelled. Grotesque and female with sharply pointed nose, enormous locks of hair and heavy necklaces. Arms and all body below waist missing and breasts (snowman technique) broken off.
18787 35-1-111 (none) (none) Lion head. Terracotta. modeled in the round. Good style. [drawing 1:1]
19485 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Calcite. Rough and primitive design of fish (?)
19486 35-1-19 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Design of men ovals horizontally placed
19553 35-1-592 (none) (none) Clay pot. Light red clay, Type The body is decorated all over with horizontal lines in the middle and at top and bottom vertical incised lines. in fragments
19986 (none) 1935,0112.13 (none) Clay vase. Painted red all over. JN 47
18256B (none) 1933,1013.11 (none) Group. [A] 1) Large earring (?) of base silver, a ring with 6 pendant grape clusters. [B] 2) Silver finger ring with flat bezel engraved thus [reference to drawing], roughly with figure of a dog. [C] 3) Copper ring with silver oval bezel, the design perished. [D-F] 4) A set of 3 copper rings once set with glass paste (or in two cases stones?)
2916 (none) 1927,1003.143 (none) Terracotta hen. Head missing. [drawing 1:1]
11889 30-12-7 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell (in poor condition) A man, a lion, a bull & a gazelle fighting.
11743E (none) 1929,1017.268 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
(none) 31-16-684 (none) (none) [Unknown]
(none) 31-16-754 (none) (none) [Unknown]
(none) 31-16-770 (none) (none) [Unknown]
(none) 31-16-780 (none) (none) [Unknown]
(none) 31-16-782 (none) (none) [Unknown]
(none) 31-16-794 (none) (none) [Unknown]
(none) 31-16-796 (none) (none) [Unknown]
(none) 31-16-797 (none) (none) [Unknown]
(none) 31-16-803 (none) (none) [Unknown]
(none) 31-16-819 (none) (none) [Unknown]
(none) 31-16-820 (none) (none) [Unknown]

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