Decoration

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

Objects: Decoration Export: JSON - XML - CSV Clay Seals and Sealings

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
16559A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 steatite cylinder seals; [E] 1 Shell cylinder seal. Inscriptions illegible.
17017	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Calcite. Grey. Unpierced. Seated god and standing figure before hair.
1706	(none)	(none)	B15594	Cylinder seal. Light brown stone. With traces of archaic design of fishes.
17254	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tablet [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17312	(none)	1931,1010.26	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 standing figures.
17317	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Two standing figures and a winged dragon.
17318	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Limestone. Grey. Tree and criss cross decoration.
17328	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. One human figure thus [drawing] and a small animal (?) roughly incised.
17329	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Presentation scene.
1733	(none)	(none)	B15589	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Very scratchily engraved on one side only with design of 2 men fighting a lion. P. [drawing]
1734	(none)	(none)	B15590	Cylinder seal. grey stone. Broken. Upper part only of introduction scene with crescent moon in front of god. P.
17702	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Clay. Tree encircled with fillet between 2 adoring figures; crescent on staff.
17806C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Groups: From one burial. (A) Gold fillet, of narrow thin ribbon, twisted. (B) [B.1-.2] A pair of gold earrings, each consisting of two complete earrings intertwined, of the small hollow lunate type: in each case, one earring is fatter than the other: D.'s 15mm and 13mm respectively. One hoop is broken. (C) Cylinder seal, lapis lazuli, standing, human figures roughly cut. (D) Gold finger ring, hollow tube pressed in along the periphery thus [drawing]. (E) Beads: gold and carnelian, lapis and silver diamonds: gold and carnelian barrels and double conoids; mixed types, large lentoids, bugles, balls and double conoids of carnelian, agate, lapis. For order see field notes.
18413A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealings. Fragment of unclassified designs, mostly with men and animals.
18550C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-O] Clay jar sealing. With seal impressions (various)
234	(none)	(none)	B15272	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor.
487	(none)	(none)	B15256	Chalcedony seal. Same shape as U.486. Subject [referencing drawin] [drawing]
496	(none)	(none)	B15255	Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]
497	(none)	(none)	B15250	Scaraboid. White steatite. inscr. [drawing]
6002	(none)	(none)	B16287	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Below, figure Gilgamesh? prostrate above, offering to Ea, heraldic animals, etc. c. BC 2300. ? Brick. VII
6059	(none)	(none)	B16284, B16284	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Reception scene, Nannar and minor go and votary, 2 lines of inscription. E. 3rd Dynasty of Ur.
6065	(none)	(none)	B16300	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 3 grooves in middle divider scene, seated god and introduction of votary from 4 swans on lower half. About BC 2700. E.
6066	(none)	(none)	B16292	Seal. Black steatite. Triangular shape scorpion and? Lizard? About BC 2600. E.
6091	(none)	(none)	B16311	Cylinder seal. Black basalt. Nannar, minor god and votary. E.
6106	(none)	(none)	B16296, B16296	Cylinder seal. White frit. Unpierced. Inscribed: Lugal-nu-zu aon of E-te-nin-ka ilSin. E.