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)
8912 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Light greenish-grey stone, Scene: a seated god and 2 standing figures: presentation scene.
7923 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Marble. Brownish, and black. Slightly concave. Gilgamesh fighting rampant lion. Behind the lion a gazelle which follows Enkidu who fights a rampant bull. Behind the rampant bull a star over a crescent moon. c. 2700BC.
8747 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Marble. Mottled. 5 standing divinities all wearing high horned headdresses. One walks upon the mountain - left leg straight, right leg slightly bent at knee as in an attitude of climbing - in his right hand he holds a plume? Oblique lines on either side touching the shoulders and waist possibly the sun's rays? Facing him a divinity carrying an offering? in his left hand, behind a god carrying a gazelle. Beyond but facing the opposite direction a god Ea? with water flowing from eah shoulder and beyond again a god grasping a ladder, head turned towards Ea as if inviting him to ascend. Possibly this is the ladder of heaven which has already been ascended by all except these two divinities.
9026 (none) (none) B16876 Cylinder seal. Marble: green and white. A winged god wearing conical cap and a straight flowing skirt which is represented by vertical parallel lines, holds left arm slightly upraised while apparently addressing a second naked god. The second god is engaged in felling to the ground an unwinged god who is represented as utterly unbalanced, arms flung downward behind the head, head and feet drooping to the ground, middle of the body uppermost. Beyond: a third winged divinity stands over the back of a crouching man, right foot upon the neck, left foot upon the rump. The winged divinity also lays his right hand upon the head of a naked kneeling suppliant, and his left upon the head of a similar suppliant who kneels upon the left knee only. Bold but rather coarse cutting. Subject not hitherto found upon any cylinder seal from Ur.
11896 30-12-31 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Pale green calcite. (1 side decayed) human-headed bulls & heroes fighting.
81 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Paste. Poor condition. Simple criss-cross design. [drawing 1:1]
17726 32-40-330 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. 2 men fighting a lion.
7986 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Design in 3 registers, worn and not recognisable.
18248 33-35-172 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Two men fighting a lion. Poor work and in poor condition.
12086 (none) 1929,1017.379 (none) Cylinder Seal. Rock crystal. Hero fighting rampant lion; repeated twice. White paste core run down centre of seal.
130 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell core. One side badly chipped. Subject: 2 figs approaching a seated god: 2 columns of inscription.
12100 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell, decayed. Rampant stags and bulls. Hopeless.
12019 (none) 1929,1017.366 (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition.
12031 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition. Hero between 2 antelopes & a lion.
12053 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition. Lions fighting.
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.
7116 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Yellowish. Linear decoration. 2 registers. Before 3000 BC. B.
8701 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell? Surface powdered through fire. 2 registers: Geometric designs consisting of circles and lines well spread apart radiating from them. [drawing] Design mostly obliterated. Broken in 2 halves.
8793 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite black. Seated god and 4 erect - gods? approaching one holds a vase with a handle to it.
7894 (none) (none) B16881 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated Nannar. Nannar and minor deity wear flounced kaunakes skirt and low head dress. Votary shaven and shorn wearing long skirt fringed in front. Behind votary a rampant lion between 4 vertical lines, which may represent the doors of a shrine? Attributes: crescent moons one against the other as on the burnt bricks of Sin-Iddinam.
7122 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. 2 worshippers and palm branch rising out of vase. Inscribed. 2300 BC. B.
8799 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed but obliterated. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hand? to seated god.
7895 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed with the names of three divinities: ^dNI?-TUR-KU? ^dNin-dul, ^dAya. Two heavily draped divinities greeting one another, between them one line of inscription. Behind the minor deity a second line of inscription. Behind this an attendant carrying a club? Behind, a third line and a second attendant, hands clasped at waist.
17014 31-43-65 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Miniature. Gilgamesh and Eabani fighting rampant lion.
7117 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Blue grey. Scene of worship. Introduction of votary to Marduk? who hold a lance. Attributes: lance. 1st Bab. Dyn. B.

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