Incised
Technique of decoration where designs are cut into an object.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8685 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, button type. Design: below, a bull. Above. | |
 | 8699 | (none) | 1928,1009.17 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Brown mottled steatite. Winged god in a shrine and two minor gods apparently opening the shrine doors. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 8793 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite black. Seated god and 4 erect - gods? approaching one holds a vase with a handle to it. |
| 8799 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed but obliterated. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hand? to seated god. |
| 8800 | (none) | 1928,1009.51 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. Yellowish. Crescent moon on post and 3 errect figures with right hands upraised approaching to worship. |
| 8845 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. Subject obliterated pending treatment. |
| 8910 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. grey stone. Much worn. Design of running gazelles. |
| 8911 | (none) | 1928,1009.49 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Light brown pebble. Design: 2 lions, crossed, 2 rampant gazelles (?) and a post with star and crescent moon. |
| 8912 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Light greenish-grey stone, Scene: a seated god and 2 standing figures: presentation scene. |
| 8916 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis Lazuli Scene: Gilgamesh and bull, Eabani and lion. |
| 8965 | (none) | 1928,1009.41 | (none) | Cylinder seal. lapis Very small, 2 seated and 2 standing figures. |
| 8971 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Lapis 3 figures before a god Broken and mended. The cylinder had silver beads and a tube of silver ran through it and was fixed to caps: the latter are decayed (and stuck to U.8972): the tube still inside. |
| 8988A | (none) | 1928,1009.55 | (none) | [A] Cylinder seal. Lapis, with [B] gold caps. Fragmentary. There were found only 2 bits of the cylinder, lying apart, and the caps were some way off in the grave, which otherwise appeared undisturbed. Inscription of (servant of ?) the daughter of Sargon of Akkad., [A] Lapis cylinder found in two fragments + [B] gold caps (missing now?) See UEII No. 308 |
| 8999 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene, seated god and two standing figures. Inscription of KU-RU-UG SHAMASH, a merchant. |
| 9010 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis Lazuli. Inscribed: Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant lion and rampant bull respectively. [The following is probably a later addition to the card] Legend: Ur-Igi-gal; servant of Igi-gal or of the Seer (?) |
| 9023 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli Gilgamesh and Enkidu back to back. The former, horned, grasps a rampant leopard? (a spotted beast) by the tail, the latter apparently wearing a tiara consisting of 4 erect head pieces grasps a rampant lion by the tail. Beyond, a horned and bearded hero advancing towards a rampant gazelle. c. 3000 BC |
| 9024 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant bull and rampant lion, respectively. |
| 9027 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Man-headed bearded bull crossed with lion rampant. On one side a spotted leopard?, on the other side a gazelle, both rampant. A grotesque male figure grasps the leopard by the tail. This figure wears a tiara? This is represented by 4 engraved lines having the appearance of plumes over the head. Behind the gazelle near the top of the seal, a small grotesque figure resting upon one knee. Coarse second-rate cutting. |
| 9049 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Shell White Curvilinear desig 6 holes partially perforated on body of seal to admit inlay. No trace of inlay left. [drawing] |
| 9050 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Shell White. A seated divinity and 3 standing figures. Poor condition. |
| 9051 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Limestone? White Spread eagle, star above crescent moon, and on either side of the star and crescent, a reclining antelope with very high horns. |
| 9056 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Steatite Green Broken & mended Gilgamesh and Enkidu v rampant lion and bull |
| 9060 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Black steatite A standing bearded male accosts a seated god and a similar standing figure accosts a kneeling deity |