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)
11743E (none) 1929,1017.268 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11889 30-12-7 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell (in poor condition) A man, a lion, a bull & a gazelle fighting.
11895 30-12-15 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 ibex walking.
11896 30-12-31 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Pale green calcite. (1 side decayed) human-headed bulls & heroes fighting.
11897 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: in each, men & various animals fighting.
11899 30-12-21 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Geometrical design.
11904 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Gold. Of thin metal pressed over a core of some other material: at the ends, shell caps, of which one is missing. Above: the royal family feasting. Below: harpist & other musicians.
11906 (none) 1929,1017.47 (none) Frontlet. An ellipse of gold plate engraved with an 8-pointed star of the conventional type: at each end a wire for attachment, one ending in a loop, the other in a wooden button.
11938 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers in each, men & animals.
11957 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Translucent white quartzite(?)
11958 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. Tree & buffalo of Mohenjo daro type.
11959 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. hematite (broken)
11961 30-12-28 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Green stone. 2 Heroes fighting a lion & a bull.
11970B (none) (none) (none) [A] Copper Pin. Type VI B. With it a [B] cylinder seal of green calcite(?) much decayed: 2 registers with seated figures, archaic.
11973 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Geometric design.
11978 30-12-9 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. Decayed, but design visible of fighting animals.
11981 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. 2 men fighting a lion.
11983A (none) (none) (none) [A] Cylinder Seal. Dark steatite. 3 [regetration? illegible] gods & attendants. With it [B] copper pin with plain rounded head.
11987 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene.
11990 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Greenish white calcite, translucent. [Annotated] Inscription: Kalam-il (DU =?) ra-gab =Kalam-il envoy (or the like). [Annotated] HC..17.
12004A 30-12-36 (none) (none) [A] Cylinder Seal Black Steatite with this a [B] copper pin, plain tang head. Type II.
12011A (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seals. (A) Lapis, geometric pattern. (B) White translucent calcite decayed & design gone.
12011B (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seals. (A) Lapis, geometric pattern. (B) White translucent calcite decayed & design gone.
12017 30-12-43 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Green stone.
12019 (none) 1929,1017.366 (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell, poor condition.

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