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)
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).

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