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)
9064 (none) (none) B16898 Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli Silver core Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant lion and rampant bull respectively.
9069 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Shell Subject indistinct Rampant lion and rampant gazelle.
9082 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli 2 registers Above: male figure attacking rampant gazelle - behind the gazelle a rampant lion, also, figure behind the man. Beyond them a second male figure wearing a pigtail? Similarly engaged. Below: male figure holding rampant lion by the tail - a gazelle - 2 rampant lions crossed - a gazelle, all rampant. Also, a crescent moon - above a post?
9083 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Steatite Black A hero fighting - between two rampant antelopes, and 2 rampant lions. Attributes: star on a post? [drawing of star on post]
9092B (none) (none) B17490 Copper pin [A]. Thickened head and short tang. Onto the stem is corroded a small lapis cylinder seal [B](engraved conoid with animal figures) which must have hung from the hole in the stem of the pin. [Type I]
9100 (none) (none) B16878 Cylinder seal Black marble? Highly polished Course cutting Slightly concave Seated god within 2 gates of a shrine. 1 divinity knocking at each door
9117 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal White shell Subject: 2 figures seated and drinking through straws, one figure standing at their backs.
9145 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Green stone Gilgamesh and Eabani.
9149 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Silver (?) Apparently a presentation scene, but too corroded to be clear
9150 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Lapis Men fighting beasts.
9158 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Black steatite Presentation scene, seated & 3 standing figures.
9165B (none) (none) (none) [Unknown]
9166 (none) (none) B16853 Cylinder seal Pinkish stone Rampant beasts Poor work and rubbed Chipped at base
9178 (none) (none) (none) [CARD MISSING] Cylinder seal. Black and white granite. With copper caps. Large and fine, with inscription of the steward (?) of Sargon's daughter.
9183 (none) (none) B16854 Cylinder seal Lapis, with gold caps (the latter rather broken). Subject: Gilgamesh and Eabani.
9186 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Dark steatite Introduction scene with 1 seated and 3 standing figures and a tree. Poor work.
9187 (none) (none) B16871 Cylinder seal White shell Burnt and reduced to lime. Scene: fighting men and animals.
9242 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli Hero wearing a tiara, and a second bearded hero standing between a bearded bull and a lion on the one side and a gazelle and a lion on the other
9261 (none) (none) B16892 Cylinder seal Shell? 2 seated gods, between them a standing god. Behind one throne a palm tree.
9262 (none) (none) B16860 Cylinder seal Steatite Green. Slightly concave. A god standing between two portals, the left foot raised and resting upon the mountain top, the right foot rigid- as if in the attitude of ascending? His left hand is upraised and in it he holds a feather whisk?? His head is turned backward in contemplation of a minute human figure crouching in the attitude of subjection. The god's right hand is extended immediately above the head of the victim that he has crushed. Oblique to the go are three concentric wavy lines above the right shoulder - possibly representing lightening? The god wears a horned headdress. A second god also wearing a horned headdress, long hair falling below the shoulders and ending in a knot? and a skirt descending to the feet, approaches one of the portals and touches it with hands as if about to open it.
9263 (none) (none) B16855 Cylinder seal Steatite Black Geometric decoration
9264 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Steatite Black A pair of spread wings and feathered decoration running round the seal forming 2 hyperboles the one above the other, below the central horizontal axis of the seal.
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
9283 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Black steatite Men fighting bull & lion an inscription has been intentionally erased

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