Impressed
Technique of decorating a surface by pushing another object into the surface.
A process of decorating a surface by pushing another object into the surface, like a stamp or seal.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7681 | (none) | 1928,1009.14 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Fragment. White marble. Rampant lion. Rampant bull. Attacked by hero with feathered headdress. |
| 7683 | (none) | 1928,1009.56 | (none) | Flat seal. Rectangular base with rounded corners. Half cylinder pierced superimposed. Steatite. Mottled grey. Inscribed. Powerful bull=like animal with head bent downwards. In style of Mohenjo Daro seals. |
| 7690 | (none) | 1928,1009.57 | (none) | Flat seal. Pyramidal. 5 round cavities on flat side [drawing of pattern] |
| 7700 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay seal impression. Roughly cube-shaped lump with beginning of same inscription on each face. cf. U.6360, doubtless seal of son of present Sinikisan who had same name as his grandfather Ilusu-ibisa. Date = Hammurabi. HC.3 |
| 7714 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay seal impression. Pyramidal lump containing part of same impression on each face. A servant of Dimtabba? HC.14. |
| 7784 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression Shape as U.7714 Seal of Ilushu-ibisha son of Siniqishum Inscription identical with U.7700; shows also figure of worshipper. Hammurabi |
| 7806 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression On envelope of a tablet in lot 7804 Between goddess with crescent and distaff and worshipper HC 33 | |
| 7834A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick stamp? [A] Brick-like fragment containing apparently the sign U [drawing] in relief. Part of star-in-circle on reverse. [B] Another smaller fragment of same kind. [drawing] |
| 7835 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression? on circular clay. Theriomarchy. edge and reverse striated. |
| 7841 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. BA?-MA? DAM figure of Divinity? Gazelle? HC.44 |
| 7848A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-D] 4 clay sealings. Figures but no inscriptions. (these are deteriorating) |
| 7897 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Steatite. Black. 2 spread eagles. Reversed and undulating toothed band running between them and round the body of the seal. |
| 7898 | (none) | 1928,1010.243 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene to seated Nannar. Minor deity leads votary by the hand. Criss-cross markings. IIIrd Ur Dynasty. |
| 7899 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Steatite. Black. 2 birds reversed and a scorpion? |
| 7909 | (none) | 1928,1009.28 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Green. Enthroned god with high horned headdress and kaunakes skirt stretching out wand to bull supporting shrine on his back. On either side of shrine, wings outspread and behind shrine a worshipper carrying a curved staff in his outstretched hands. Hair done up in a knot above shoulders. Bull is probably a symbol of strength and thus supports the shrine, the worshipper is probably represented as about to enter and the god as seated within. [drawing] |
| 7912 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Glazed. Originally green, bleached white. Winged dragon with long upright tail. Three snakes standing vertically. Two incised lines run round cylinder close to circumference at top and two similarly at bottom. |
| 7915 | (none) | 1928,1009.58 | (none) | Flat seal. Convex on one side. Hole perforated through top for attachment. Whorl design on flat side. Yellowish marble with red streaks. |
| 8119 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers. Above: 2 seated deities in sheep skin skirts facing one another. One arm upraised. A standing figure between facing one of them. Beyond; the gate of a shrine? thus - [drawing]. Below: 3 seated deities wearing sheep skin skirts. 2 behind one another. A third opposite. Between them a palm? rising from a high bowl with a pedestal thus - [drawing]. One deity strikes it with a sword? the other holds a branch with his hand. |
| 8131 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Sealing For Jar. Unbaked clay. Impression of string on the inside. Fragment. On the outside seal impression - rampant bull with bearded man's head and lion's head attacking the neck of a gazelle? |
| 8141 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Partly obliterated. At the base of the seal in high relief a lion, body in profile head and forelegs full face. Winged dragon? gazelle, and hero attacking bull. 2 bearded bulls rampant, crossed, with man's heads. |
| 8202 | (none) | 1928,1009.44 | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. Much decayed and scarcely legible. Scene, Gilgamesh and lion, Eabani and bull. |
| 8228 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Gilgamesh between 2 lions and Eabani with a bull. |
| 8410 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Limestone. White. Deeply cut - poor condition. Fighting men - fighting bulls. |
| 8426 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Brick stamp Baked clay Fragment |
| 8473 | (none) | 1928,1009.471 | (none) | Terracotta head of female Upper right-hand side of head missing Hair falls down side of head in long tresses Pronounced chin, straight nose and slight ridge in middle of forehead Hellenistic style? [drawing] 1:1 sketch |