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)
9266 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Limestone White Subject not clear. A seated god, a squatting lion, vertical posts, a god behind the bards of a gate? And a second standing god.
9268 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Frit Subject indistinct: A crescent moon and standing warriors
9282 (none) 1928,1009.27 (none) Cylinder seal Dark mottled steatite with copper caps. Introduction scene: seated god and 3 figures approaching him and carrying respectively a tall vase, a cup and box and a gazelle [three lines of undecipherable text erased]
9283 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Black steatite Men fighting bull & lion an inscription has been intentionally erased
9290 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal White shell Standing god in shrine and one other standing figure. Poor condition and originally poor scratchy work
9291 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Haematite Gilgamesh & Eabani, & tree
9292 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Black haematite Introduction scene with 1 - seated and 3 - standing figures. A column of inscription has been intentionally effaced
9315 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Lapis 2 registers: Above, 2 seated and 3 standing figures, and inscription. Below, a table of offerings and 6 people bringing offerings. Very archaic style.
9321 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Lapis Mottled blue and white Heroes and human-headed bulls
9326 (none) 1928,1009.38 (none) Cylinder seal Lapis Standing god and 3 worshippers
9330 (none) 1928,1009.25 (none) Cylinder seal Hematite Scene: 2 men, 2 bulls, 1 lion fighting.
9341 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal White shell Almost all the surface gone, but one small part left showing a lion, a stag and a spotted leopard. Found attached by a silver band to the belt.
9501 (none) 1928,1010.247 (none) Cylinder seal Black steatite 2 heroes fighting a lion. Between the two human figures an inscription in 2 columns. Dugal-dug-ga dumu U-da Lugaldugga son of Uda HC.201
9503 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal White shell Somewhat decayed 2 very large scorpions with a star between them a standing human figure, and an upright pole with a star on top
9504 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Dark steatite Broken Presentation scene: seated Nannar with crescent, minor god and worshipper
9526 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal White steatite A man fighting 3 beasts, and a tree.
9527 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Dark steatite 2 heroes fighting beasts Poor scratchy style
9528 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal White shell Very poor and almost wholly effaced: worship of a god, between 2 emblems(?)
9529 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Lapis Presentation scene with inscription much defaced. Figures finely engraved- seated goddess, worshipper and minor god.
9542 (none) 1928,1010.246 (none) Cylinder seal Fragment Upper half missing Mottled marble Inscribed Presentation scene before seated god. Flounced kaukanes skirts.
9551 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. With copper caps, one broken. 2 heroes fighting a lion & a bull. Traces of an inscription.
9552 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Lapis lazuli 2 heroes fighting a lion and a bull
9567 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Shell Two heroes fighting a lion and a bull. 2 columns of inscription: Gimil-i-li-su; Sangudgis-erim; Gimil-ilisu; Priest of dgisERIM (su for su, as in period of Agade) (HC.203)
9568 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal White shell In very poor condition: the subject was two men fighting an animal, but it was hardly distinguishable.
9578 (none) 1928,1010.251 (none) Cylinder Seal Haematite Presentation scene, seated god and 3 standing figures and a tree

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