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)
18397E 33-35-292 (none) (none) [A-H] Clay jar sealing. Fragments of impressed with finely drawn linear design which contains possible hieroglyphic elements.
18397D 33-35-291 (none) (none) [A-H] Clay jar sealing. Fragments of impressed with finely drawn linear design which contains possible hieroglyphic elements.
18397C 33-35-290 (none) (none) [A-H] Clay jar sealing. Fragments of impressed with finely drawn linear design which contains possible hieroglyphic elements.
18397B 33-35-289 (none) (none) [A-H] Clay jar sealing. Fragments of impressed with finely drawn linear design which contains possible hieroglyphic elements.
18397A 33-35-293 (none) (none) [A-H] Clay jar sealing. Fragments of impressed with finely drawn linear design which contains possible hieroglyphic elements.
18394A 33-35-263 (none) (none) [A-Q] Clay jar stoppers. Fragments of. With roughly incised decoration. 16 fragments in all.
18368 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Palm tree and 2 figures.
18363A (none) 1933,1013.61 (none) [A] Cylinder seal (?). Copper. In very bad condition. [B] With it a plain copper wire bracelet.
18361 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. White marble. Convex above: oval, flat below with a crude design of drilled spots. [drawing 1:1]
18359 (none) 1933,1013.227 (none) Terracotta mould for a small figure, grotesque, naked, full face, with bent knees, urinating.
18357 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Carnelian. Broken and one end missing. Two gryphons.
18354 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Chalcedony. High flattened conical type a worshipper upon a disk set on a staff.
18351 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Design destroyed except for 1 standing figure: a single column of inscription.
18350 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Two figures, standing one on either side of a staff whereon a crescent.
18349 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Darks steatite. Two figures, standing on either side of a date palm.
18346 (none) 1933,1013.78 (none) Cylinder seal of dark purple glazed glazed frit. Two trees (?) and pomegranates (?)
18343 33-35-175 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Coarse work, much damaged, and apparently unfinished. Men fighting animals.
18341 33-35-164 (none) (none) Animal's body. Grey steatite. Body of couchant animal, the hind quarters complete, in fairly high relief: the front leg only sketched: the stone is rounded off at the shoulder so that there never was a head. The body is flat and bears two engraved signs thus. [drawing]
18337 33-35-169 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, with convex tip, pierced horizontally. Subject: 2 animals, a third animal and an unrecognizable object: engraved mostly with the circular drill.
18334 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Unfinished. First sketch for lower part of standing human figure.
18333 (none) 1933,1013.73 (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 2 columns of inscription.
18332 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 3 standing figures.
18331 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 3 standing figures.
18330 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. (broken). 2 registers: above, presentation scene with seated god and 2 standing figures: below a line of swans.
18325 33-35-262 (none) (none) Clay seal impression. Men and animals fighting. [Note on back of card reads Check in Catalog of Vol. IV, was there, but has been removed. The note is signed [illegible], and dated 1936.]

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