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)
495 (none) (none) (none) Scarab. White steatite. Inscr. [drawing]
15493 (none) 1930,1213.142 (none) Scaraboid seal. Now dull yellow. glazed. Incised with design of sphinx. [drawing 1:1]
497 (none) (none) B15250 Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
10153 (none) (none) (none) Seal Lapis lazuli Lentoid shaped 3 registers Men and gazelles
9976 (none) (none) B16858 Seal White marble Oval: rounded top, flat base on which figures of animals roughly done with a drill [drawing] 1:1
7027 (none) (none) B16301 Seal. White steatite. Round. Hole perforated horizontally through hemispherical sides. Flat on one side, hemispherical on the other. Hemispherical side has 3 grooves 0002 wide in all bisecting it and concentric circles decoration, 4 in all, 2 on either side of the bisecting line. On flat side in middle enthroned Nannar both hands supporting a post with a crescent moon which is also supported by a bull-man. Behind the throne a similar bull-man also supporting a crescent moon on a post, and below the throne a bull with high horns, crescent shaped. Bull-men (Eabani) are ithyphallic. Hair on legs of Eabani. E. Before 3000 BC.
7065 (none) 1927,0527.203 (none) Seal. Grey stone. Oblong rounded ends, on one side lion with flowing tail devouring a bird, on the other a human head, at side a fish, and on opposite side 5 holes in a line. E.
7066 (none) (none) (none) Seal. Oblong flat one side, convex the other, ends just wide enough fro usual seal hole. Greenish jadeite, on flat side 5 birds. Before 3000BC. B.
412 (none) (none) (none) Shell amulet. Human face, full front: rough cut. [drawing 1:1]
16761 (none) 1931,1010.271 (none) Silver finger Ring. With oval bezel-engraved.
14931 (none) 1930,1213.345 (none) Spindle whorl. Drab clay. Decorated with punched dots and slashes. [drawing 1:1]
18284 33-35-170 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Facetted conical: chalcedony. Persian type. Two standing figures worshipping before an altar: crescent above.
8685 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, button type. Design: below, a bull. Above.
17797 32-40-345 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Shell. One side flattened and rough representation of animal drilled and scratched on. [drawing 1:1]
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.).
17223 (none) 1931,1010.67 (none) Steatite plaque-pendant (with holder at top perforated for suspension. Phoenician inscription. Not illustrated. [drawing]
406 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase-lid. Fr of. The top surface cloisonne for inlay with central rosette and liver pattern round edge. [drawing 1:1]
405 (none) (none) B14953 Stone vase-lid. Light steatite. Circular. Knob handle broken: round the top a band of dotted concentric circles.[drawing]
1211 (none) (none) B15695 Terra cotta face or mask, broken away from rest of object. Resembles Greek comic mask, but may be face of Pazuzu. [drawing] P Photo 174
403 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta bed. Moulded: fragment. of 2 legs and half of bed left. Mattress represented by curved and zigzag lines in low relief.
18099 (none) 1933,1013.240 (none) Terracotta bed. The corners project: the string mattress rendered by incised lines. The corners chipped off.
17190 31-43-315 (none) (none) Terracotta bird. Hand-modelled and coarsely engraved. [drawing].
311 (none) (none) B14991 Terracotta bust. of a god wearing the horned tiara and heavy curls on shoulders. Good bold modelling, moulded and finished by hand. Eemuriana [written in red pencil] [drawing 1:1]
17138A 31-43-328 (none) (none) Terracotta demon's head in very high relief. (A) Almost complete = good impression. [drawing 1:1]
1024 (none) (none) B15194 Terracotta figure. Fr. of. Moulded, and finished by hand. Head and shoulders of a duck. Reddish clay.

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