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)
18976 35-1-5 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Light yellowish stone. 2 heroes fighting animals.
18975 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis. Bull carrying a shrine, with worshippers, gods and animals.
18974 35-1-9, 35-1-9 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. One seated and three standing figures: two columns of inscription. Inscription: Lugal-ma (C.J.G.)
18973 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. One seated and 3 standing gods.
18972 (none) 1935,0112.38 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Seated deity and 3 standing figures.
18964 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Seated deity and two standing figures, and two columns of inscription. Inscription: Ur-ses-GIR, son of Ur-girenna (C.J.G.)
18951 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two gazelles and small figures of two men in a boat. Very bad cratchy cutting.
18949 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Two seated figures and standing attendant; two columns of inscription. Inscription: Ur... (rest of name illegible in photograph) son of Ur-Nanna-pad-da. (C.J.G.)
18948 35-1-13, 35-1-13 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Standing god with two worshippers; two columns of inscription. Inscription: Ilu-su(?)-ir, son of Dudu (C.J.G.)
18947 35-1-11 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. A spread eagle grasping two wild goats.
18946 35-1-4 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Animals fighting; two lions heraldically crossed and two gazelles.
18928 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Grey hematite. Square, with tubular handle. A seated figure to whom an attendant offers a spouted libation vase. Very curious cutting, especially in the faces.
18927 35-1-10 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity and 2 worshippers and goat.
18926 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Two figures seated and drinking through tubes, and a standing attendant.
18925 35-1-8 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Very dark steatite. Hero fighting heraldically crossed lions and bulls.
18924 35-1-17 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Brown steatite. Two heroes fighting animals.
18923 35-1-2 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. A hero, and fighting animals. Archaic: very much worn and defaced.
18922 35-1-16 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. A god driving a chariot drawn by a winged gryphon(?); between the wings rises a goddess armed with a bow, in front of it is another god. One column of inscription. Inscription: Ur-gis-me-e (C.J.G.)
18921 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Men fighting animals.
18920 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled steatite. God in a shrine of which each door is guarded by an attendant: two columns of inscription. Inscription uncertain (C.J.G.)
18919 35-1-22, 35-1-22 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Green steatite (?) with copper caps. Two standing gods shaking hands: two men killing a kneeling prisoner: two columns of inscription supported by an animal. Good work.
18918 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Brown steatite. Carinated type./ A hero bestriding a bull; a star; a second hero on one knee throws a lion over his shoulder. Two columns of inscriptions supported byb a goat: water below. Remarkably fine cutting.
18917 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled lapis lazuli. Two registers: above, hero and fighting animals; below, heroes fighting animals.
18916 (none) 1935,0112.48 (none) Cylinder seal. Greenish-grey steatite. Seated deity and two standing figures, and a tree.
18915 (none) 1935,0112.53 (none) Cylinder seal. Quartzite. Criss-cross marking.

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