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)
16751 (none) 1931,1010.45 (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Unpierced.
16760 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Quartz. Shaped like a flattened truncated cone with base slightly convex and 4 sides.
16783A (none) (none) (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.
16783B (none) (none) (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.
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.
16788 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. 2 registers. Above: presentation scene before seated god. Below: 3 geese.
16789 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Gilgamesh, Zabani and rampant lion.
16790 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. One animal.
16794 31-43-59 (none) (none) Cylinder Glazed Frit Type same as U.16.606.
16801 (none) (none) (none) Lapsi lazuli cylinder seal. ^d.En-ki, ^d.Dam-gal-nun-na.
16802 (none) (none) (none) Hematite cylinder seal. ^d.Nin-gal-la-ma-zi, dumu-sal ^dSin-ma-an gim ^d.Lugal-ban-da
16803 (none) 1931,1010.33 (none) Steatite cylinder seal.
16804 (none) (none) (none) Hematite cylinder seal. Warad- ^dSamas dumu Zi-iz-tum Warad Bur- ^dSin
16806 (none) (none) (none) Shell cylinder seal.?
16807 (none) (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal.
16808 (none) (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal.
16809 (none) 1933,1013.52 (none) Shell cylinder seal (not pierced). ^dAdad-ba(?)-ni(?) ,dumu Nu-ur- ^dAdad...
16818 (none) (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal. Awel-^dAdad, the attendant of the ...son of...
16819 (none) (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal. (fragment) (not pierced). Na-bi-u(m...) Son of...
16820A 31-43-31 (none) (none) [A-C] 3 steatite cylinder seals. (A) Illegible, save for first sign. (B) Adad ; (C) Awel-ilim (wrt LU.DINGIR.BA), Son of Ur-Dam-bur(?).
16820B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 steatite cylinder seals. (A) Illegible, save for first sign. (B) Adad ; (C) Awel-ilim (wrt LU.DINGIR.BA), Son of Ur-Dam-bur(?).
16820C (none) 1931,1010.41 (none) [A-C] 3 steatite cylinder seals. (A) Illegible, save for first sign. (B) Adad ; (C) Awel-ilim (wrt LU.DINGIR.BA), Son of Ur-Dam-bur(?).
16903 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta mould for making a seated figure of a woman, draped, and suckling an infant.
16927C (none) 1931,1010.232 (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
16927G 31-43-7 (none) (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]

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