This is anything that is added or subtracted from the surface of an object, usually for artistic purposes.  

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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)
1 (none) (none) (none) Clay Cone. Inscribed.
2 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Base of. Inscribed. [Annotated] King's name broken off. Placed in IN/No. 2 Ur Texts I: R.I.135
3 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Fr. of. Inscribed [Annotated] Sumerian account tablet. Date broken. Placed in IN/No.2
4 (none) (none) (none) Clay cone. Upper part. Inscribed. [Annotated] Libit-Ishtar. Duplicate of SAKI 204/3 [Annotated] Duplicates - 74. Sumerian inscription of Libit-Ishtar recording of his building of E-gipar, the residence of the high priest in Ur. Inscr. duplicate of clay, Miscell. Inscr. no. 27. Ur TextsI: R.1.106. Placed in IN/No.5
6 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. of Reddish clay with creamy white engobbage. Wheelmade. Type III.
7 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Wheelmade. Creamy pink clay worked onto surface to creamy white engobbage. Round base. Type II.
9 (none) 1923,1110.72 (none) Clay pot. Fine red clay, wheelmade, with bright hematitic slip. Pointed base. Type I.
10 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Red clay, fine, wheelmade, with creamy white engobbage partly flared to red. Pointed base. Type I (v.).
12A (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Coarse yellow-drab clay, wheelmade, round base. Broken. Type III (v.)
12B (none) (none) (none) [This U number not assigned in field]
16 (none) 1923,1110.82 (none) Clay bowl. Pinkish drab clay with creamy engobbage. Wheelmade. Rounded base. Hole drilled through side. Type V.
18 (none) (none) (none) Clay saucer. Fr. of. Drab clay with creamy engobbage. Wheelmade. Type IX.
19 (none) 1935,0113.628 (none) Clay truncated cone. (broken). Inscribed on base and barrel. [Annotation] Building inscription of Warad-Sin SAKI-212c. Duplicates:U.334; U.753; U.700; U.878; U.751 [Annotation] Recording the king's building of E-temen-ni-gur-ru, for his life and that of his father Kudur-Mabug. (restores and completes a previously known insription) Placed in IN/No.3. Ur Texts I:R.I.131
20 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite Greenish-grey. Seated figure of a divinity rt, before whom 5 standing figures.
25 (none) 1923,1110.95 (none) Clay model bed. Greenish clay and mattress pattern in relief. [drawing] [Annotated] Photo 38
26 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. In very bad condition. Inscribed [Annotated] illegible. Votive tablet dedicated to a goddess, dNin-a-[drawing of cuneiform], by Lu-dug(ga) for the life of A-annipada. [Annotated] =Al Obeid book Plate 1x Placed in IN/No.2.
27 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Fragment of Inscribed. [Annotated] Placed in IN/No.2.
29 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of green-glazed figurine of horse and rider. [drawing]
30 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of clay circular tablet. (school exercise type) [drawing]. [Annotated] Placed in IN/No 2
31 (none) (none) (none) Clay tablet. Fr. of, in bad condition. Inscribed. [Annotated] Sumerian account tablet, date broken. [Annotated] Placed in IN/No. 2.
(none) (none) 1923,1110.182 (none) (none)
54 (none) 1923,1110.190 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Engraved with scene of worshipper being introduced to a god standing in front of a gate.
55 (none) 1923,1110.191 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Broken in half and chipped down one side. Scene: 3 figures in a row advancing l[eft]. Found with beads round neck of body in larnax burial.
63 (none) (none) (none) Glazed bottle. Glaze gone white and salt [? hard to read, possibly small?]. Type LXII [crossed out] 682=173P but the neck more sharply divided from the body and with more rim. [drawing 1:2]
69 (none) (none) (none) Tablet, clay Inscribed [Annotated] Sumerian Account Tablet, Undated [Annotated] Placed in IN/No. 2

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Manufacture - Faceted - Wirework

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Addition - Subtraction