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)
18184 (none) 1932,1008.164 (none) Cylinder seal. Light steatite. 2 trees (?) and a standard (?) rude early cutting: much worn.
18183 (none) 1932,1008.163 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. A standing god, a worshipper at a shrine (?) and 2 columns of inscription. Badly cut and much worn.
17707 (none) 1932,1008.161 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. 2 men fighting lion; inscription containing royal name.
17738 (none) 1932,1008.159 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. 2 standing figures; crescent on staff.
18192 (none) 1932,1008.158 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Introduction scene, 3 standing figures. Poor rough work.
18172 (none) 1932,1008.157 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Eagle grasping 2 stags. Poor work.
17663 (none) 1932,1008.156 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite, black. 2 lions and 2 gazelles heraldically arranged; a star between the gazelles.
17812C (none) 1932,1008.154 (none) Group. From one burial. (A) [A and D] Small gold earrings, single pendants with lunate end, not the normal spiral coil type, thus [drawing 1:1] (B) Small beads, minute fluted gold balls and plain carnelian balls, one large carnelian flattened sphere and one lapis ball of copper plated with gold. (C) Cylinder seal, dark steatite, spread eagle and 2 men holding between them a vase (?) on a tree.
17448 (none) 1931,1010.79 (none) Clay impression. Unbaked. Of bull running, tail up, head down. Outline of body done as a dot border. Style similar to that of bulls on the Ishtar Gate. Fine workmanship. Figure of bull is complete, but the plaque on which it is impressed is a fragment, one side of which is missing.
16783C (none) 1931,1010.77 (none) [A-C] 3 seals. 2 scaraboids. (A). 1 frit scaraboid with scorpion engraved; (B). 1 mottled marble(?) with gazelle engraved. (C). 1 brownish stone stamp seal: star engraved.
16165 (none) 1931,1010.75 (none) Flat seal. Brownish stone. 1 end missing. Ovoid. Figure standing before an alter(?) Attibute? Sun?
16106 (none) 1931,1010.72 (none) Flat seal. Greenish grey steatite. Spread eagle and gazelle - a pair?
16613 (none) 1931,1010.71 (none) Stamp seal. Black steatite. Spread eagle. [drawing]
17330 (none) 1931,1010.70 (none) Stamp seal. Conical. Glass paste? Gazelle crescent moon.
17381 (none) 1931,1010.69 (none) Stamp seal. Baked clay. Green. Figures on three sides. Demon, gazelle, bird and on under side man with hand raised over a spear (?) [drawing 1:1]
16610 (none) 1931,1010.63 (none) Stamp seal. White marble? 3 animals, one of them a gazelle? [drawing]
16638 (none) 1931,1010.62 (none) Flat seal. Ovoid. White limestone. Scorpion? and 5 circles. [drawing]
16126 (none) 1931,1010.57 (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Linear markings. Phoenician script. To be deciphered. 2 signs ? only.
17084 (none) 1931,1010.539 (none) Vase. Baked clay. With 4 hug handles and incised decoration. Type 1)LXVIII. =L.
16150 (none) 1931,1010.53 (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Squatting monkey(?) bull, crescent moon .=L.622 [Typology?] Legrain puts seals 460-573 as Isin-Larsa. Numbers below 403 back to 270 as IIIrd Dynasty.
16278 (none) 1931,1010.50 (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone, much worn. Two crossed gazelled & two heroes fighting, two bearded man-headed beasts whose bodies cross in the same fashion.
17388 (none) 1931,1010.49 (none) Cylinder seal. Frit (?). Galloping animal, linear and cinquefoil designs.
16329 (none) 1931,1010.48 (none) Cylinder seal. Glass paste. Standing male(?) figure, pair of gazelles(?) Sacred tree(?) and above guilloche pattern.
17124 (none) 1931,1010.451 (none) Terracotta relief. Two seated goddesses (?) or women, one large and holding a pot to her breast: she wears a large garment with pleasted flounces and is bare-headed: the other beside her is similar but much small. (A) Complete but much worn. (B) [No description] Type Ib.D.
16751 (none) 1931,1010.45 (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Unpierced.

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