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)
14200 (none) (none) (none) Jar-sealing. Incised sign(?) HC.2013
14226 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Theriomachy. Rampant. Decayed. Gazelle & goat(?)
14270 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. bird-headed men and rampant lions crossed.
14277 (none) 1930,1213.516, 1930,1213.517 (none) Beads. Glazed barrels and 1 lapis double conoid; 1 carnelian ring bead.
14293 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Rampant lions crossed.
14319 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers: Banquet scene: bird-headed men sucking drink out of a tube from a large vase.
14327 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Bird-headed men fighting rampant: one of the men grasps a ram(?) which is head downwards by the tail.
14432A (none) (none) (none) Seal pendant. Limestone. Cut as an animal possibly a hedgehog(?) and engraved in flat side with 2 gazelles or antelopes (?) Perforated vertically for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
14435A (none) (none) (none) Bronze object. Flat seal? Buoy shaped. [drawing 1:1]
14436A (none) (none) (none) Flat seal. Chalcedony. Mauve. Faceted and suspended by a copper hook. Typical Persian period stamp seal. Engraved with design of a bearded deity wearing a cap and a long coat hand raised over a horse on the back of which is a pedestal supporting a crescent in a hole attribute and star.
14441A (none) 1930,1213.140 (none) Stamp seal. Shell. Archaic. Perforated horizontally through top twice. Seal is cut to represent calf with head bent back over the body. Under side engraved with design of 3 bird headed men rowing a bellum. The bellum is made of reeds intertwined vertically and horizontally. From the furrow and stem of the boat a spike (?) for ramming protrudes horizontally to the line of the boat. Each figure appears to have a circular shield (?) round the body.
14443A (none) 1930,1213.130 (none) Cylinder Seal. Calcite. Transluscent. 2 registers. Above: Banquet scene. Seated male figure sucking drink end of a tube from a bowl which rests on a stand. Next: a male figure sedentary and seated female. Behind the seated female two attendants. Below: Seated male accosted by a standing figure presents an offering. Table with offerings on it, attendant stands against table stand attendant extracting liquid from a two legged jar.
14476 (none) 1930,1213.139 (none) Stamp seal. White marble(?) or pebble. scaraboid shape. Rudely engraved below thus: [drawing 1:1]
14478 (none) 1930,1213.137 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. 3 deep grooves, between which 3 pairs of human figures rough primitive work mostly done with a drill-point.
14505 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Large Im-gig eagle, grasping animal(s)
14506 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Only legs of animals.
14508 (none) 1930,1213.433 (none) Seal impression. Animals. Including pig(?)
14509 (none) (none) (none) Seal impressions. Two Fragments. [U.14509 and U.14510]. Fragment.
14510 (none) (none) (none) Seal impressions. Two Fragments. [U.14509 and U.14510]. Fragment.
14511 (none) 1930,1213.413 (none) Jar-sealing. Cicular & convex with incised lines (&signs??) HC.2055
14513 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Coiled serpent? & animal.
14515 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Large jar-sealing with marks of geometrical impression.
14516 (none) 1930,1213.409 (none) Seal impression. Lion attacking animal, etc.
14517 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Geometrical design.
14518 (none) 1930,1213.464 (none) Seal impression. 2 men in a boat(?) and part of another boat(?) (prows end in branches) cf. 16557.

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