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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16402 | (none) | 1931,1010.398 | (none) | Terracotta Figurine. Hand modeled, crude type. [drawing 1:1] | |
![]() | 16558 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Haematite cylinder seal. "O divine Gimil-Sin, "mighty king, "King of Ur; "Ahuni, "the cup-bearer, "is thy servant." H.C. 30/II, 14. |
![]() | 16600 | (none) | 1931,1010.35 | (none) | Steatite cylinder-seal (not pierced). Warad- ^dSin dumu ha-ma-tum-za (!) (obs. The inscription is not reversed as in ordinary seals. But the second line precedes the first.). |
![]() | 16761 | (none) | 1931,1010.271 | (none) | Silver finger Ring. With oval bezel-engraved. |
16922 | (none) | 1931,1010.400 | (none) | Terracotta relief. Moulded and then worked up by hand with extra clay added; nude female figure with left hand holding object to breast, and right hand extended holding a saucer. Fragment only, broken off below waist. [drawing 1:1] | |
16939E | (none) | 1931,1010.457 | (none) | Terracotta relief of nude female with hands below breasts. (A) Complete. (B) Broken but complete except for feet; (C) Broken away at knees, poor cast. (D) Broken away at knees, poor cast; (E) Complete, the legs cut apart after moulding (F) Complete; (G) Mould taken only to navel and the cast then rounded off (probably same mould poor); (H) Complete (as above). All the above are of very lightly fired clay, red or yellowish grey, and form a group distinct from nearly all the other terracottas. They might be modern casts from an ancient mould. Type III c.Y | |
16957 | (none) | 1931,1010.509 | (none) | Terracotta relief. A rams fleece with a head attached(?) hand-modeled. (1) Complete except for surface chip at top corner. [drawing 1:2] | |
17084 | (none) | 1931,1010.539 | (none) | Vase. Baked clay. With 4 hug handles and incised decoration. Type 1)LXVIII. =L. | |
![]() | 17223 | (none) | 1931,1010.67 | (none) | Steatite plaque-pendant (with holder at top perforated for suspension. Phoenician inscription. Not illustrated. [drawing] |
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] | |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 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. | |
17955 | (none) | 1932,1008.282 | (none) | 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] | |
18099 | (none) | 1933,1013.240 | (none) | Terracotta bed. The corners project: the string mattress rendered by incised lines. The corners chipped off. | |
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 (?). | |
18606 | (none) | 1933,1013.249a | (none) | Clay vase, painted with red wash, burnished. Type JN.j.12. Very badly smashed. | |
![]() | 19485 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Calcite. Rough and primitive design of fish (?) |
![]() | 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] | |
6277AB | (none) | (none) | B16601 | [Identifying numbers changed from Roman numerals to Arabic numerals. Divided into one-up letter sequence by individual vessel A-AK] Group of baked clay pots (1)[A-H] 8 light drab colour. Type L1.TEO (2) [I-J] 2 drab, Type XCIII variant (has ring base) (3)[K-O] 5 drab reddish, Type VIII (4)[P-S] 4 drab, Type L1. TEO (5)[T-U] 2 drab, Type VII (6)[V-W] 2 drab, Type LXX TEO (7)[X] 1 red, Type XXVI [8 skipped] (9)[Y-AA] 3 drab, [Type] CCII (10)[AB] drab bowl incised markings round rim [type] CCXXXV (11)[AC] Red vase, protruding rim [Type] CXCVII (12)[AD] Miniature drab vase (13)[AE] Drab, [Type] XCIII, variant (14)[AF] Red [Type] CXCV (15)[AG] drab flat vase narrow neck (16)[AH] Neck broken off incised wavy lines round upper portion (17)[AI] Drab, neck broken. Variant of Type CLXXX (18)[AJ] Drab bowl, base missing (19)[AK] broken glazed vase, light drab B Photo 551 | |
11743E | (none) | 1929,1017.268 | (none) | Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes). |