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)
8584 (none) 1928,1009.36 (none) Cylinder seal. Blue lapis. Two wild goats rampant against a tree: another tree behind.
7954 (none) 1928,1009.35 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli, with one gold cap. Damaged, chipped in lower register. Two registers; above, 4 figures approaching a seated deity; below, 3 figures (one broken away) approaching the seated deity behind whom is a crescent moon on a staff.
8656 (none) 1928,1009.34 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli 2 registers: above, eagle displayed below, banquet scene with 3 seated figures and shrine door
8461 (none) 1928,1009.33 (none) Cylinder seal Steatite? Grey Two registers Above: door of a shrine? Two gods seated and facing one another between them a spread eagle Below: spread eagle
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]
8342 (none) 1928,1009.26 (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled grey steatite. Subject: a seated god, with an attendant behind his chair and 3 personages upright in front of him: all wear the horned headdress, so it cannot be the presentation scene. Good, bold work.
9330 (none) 1928,1009.25 (none) Cylinder seal Hematite Scene: 2 men, 2 bulls, 1 lion fighting.
9120 (none) 1928,1009.22 (none) Cylinder seal White shell The surface damaged Gilgamesh and Eabani
8056C (none) 1928,1009.21 (none) Cylinder seals of white shell. All in very bad condition. A: 4 animals, the centre two heraldically crossed, and a tree? or man? B: unrecognisable. C: unrecognisable.
8085 (none) 1928,1009.18 (none) Cylinder seal of yellowish white quartzite. Two registers: Above, a door(?), then a seated deity & a worshipper, then a worshipper pouring a libation into a tall vase with fronds rising from it, set in front of a seated deity. Below, 2 rams, one on each side of a tree, then a worshipper before a seated deity, then a man catching a rampant antelope. Very archaic style.
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.
7992 (none) 1928,1009.13 (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Fighting beasts and men.
7953 (none) 1928,1009.12 (none) Cylinder seal. White crystal, with copper caps; carinated. Two Gilgamesh figures each fighting a lion. Large cylinder, well cut. The central hole is filled with white paste having chevron bands of bright red which shows through the crystal. Inscribed.
7819 (none) 1928,1009.10 (none) Clay Pot Type CCCX Scratched with signs not yet identified HC 38
(none) (none) 1927,1003.279 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1927,1003.278 (none) (none)
(none) (none) 1927,1003.277 (none) (none)
2935 (none) 1927,1003.151 (none) Terracotta figurine. Female: primitive snowman technique. [drawing 1:2]
3280 (none) 1927,1003.149 (none) Terracotta object. Bellows shape, pierced with holes. [drawing 1:1]
2939B (none) 1927,1003.144 (none) Terracotta pig. Head missing. (B) Has snout and eye. Sketch less than 1:1 [drawing]
2916 (none) 1927,1003.143 (none) Terracotta hen. Head missing. [drawing 1:1]
2966 (none) 1927,1003.140 (none) Clay vase. Rough handmade miniature of greenish drab ware with incised decoration. Sketch pattern 1:2. [drawing 1:2]
(none) (none) 1927,1003.129 (none) (none)
2559 (none) 1927,1003.128 (none) Clay vase. Drab clay with incised pattern at rim and base. Rim broken. Type CXXV =L38 (not p).
2737 (none) 1927,1003.116 (none) Clay vase. Greenish drab ware : wheel made with incised circles on shoulder. Lip partly broken. Type CXXXIX =P.112

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