Impressed
Technique of decorating a surface by pushing another object into the surface.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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. |
| 17815E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group. From one burial. (A) Four gold frontlets oval type with tag ends, a good deal damaged and broken [A, G-I]. (B) A length of gold hair ribbon. (C) Gold finger ring of flat make wide edges bent inwards to make a ribbed hoop. (D) A pair of gold earrings of the small hollow lunate type, interlaced. [D and J] (E) Cylinder seal, white shell, introduction scene with seated goddess, crescent, 2 standing figures and tree. cf. U.1979 and U.1987. (F) Beads: small gold balls, plain and fluted, with carnelian and lapis lentoids: gold and carnelian diamonds: long carnelian bugles, carnelian lentoids, agate beads, lapis lentoid and gold balls. |
| 17817A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group. From one burial. (A) Cylinder seal, dark steatite: goddess on a goose, crescent on staff, snake emblem (?) and worshipper (naked) holding a full libation jug. (B) A few beads, gold balls, small, steatite, lentoid, carnelian ball and lapis fly. (C) Copper axe. |
| 17833 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statuette of reclining dog (?). Calcite. Originally, colored bright red (some of color left) with eyes filled in with black. The beast has a ruff and a bushy tail. A hole is pierced from the top of the back to the stomach. On the under side a seal cutting (much perished) showing animals mostly cut with the drill. |
| 17835A | 32-40-308 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two lion's heads. Silhouetted in profile. White calcite, originally painted red, but the color gone: both are really stamp seals with rough designs drill-cut on the flat lower surface. Both are pierced for suspension from the top of the head to the bottom of the mane. [drawing] | |
| 17835B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two lion's heads. Silhouetted in profile. White calcite, originally painted red, but the color gone: both are really stamp seals with rough designs drill-cut on the flat lower surface. Both are pierced for suspension from the top of the head to the bottom of the mane. [drawing] |
| 17850 | 32-40-333, 32-40-333 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder (seal?) unpierced. White limestone with 4 columns of inscription. Two names. NU-UR-KU-BI son of DUG-GA-AN-SA and E-MU-MA-NI-DA son of NU-UR-KU-BI. HC 1931 / 1 |
| 17866 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White limestone. 2 registers: below, 2 seated figures drinking through tubes. Above, spread eagle and 2 animals (? Gazelles) Archaic style. |
| 17867 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White limestone. Presentation scene with seated goddess 2 standing figures and remains of a column of inscription instantaneously defaced. Poor work. |
| 17868 | (none) | 1932,1008.173 | (none) | Cylinder seal. White limestone. Introduction scene with seated deity and 2 standing figures: poor work. |
| 17871 | 32-40-326 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Badly chipped. Presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and 3 columns of inscription. |
| 17872 | 32-40-334 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Diorite. Damaged, and part of the surface gone. Design worked entirely with the drill: a standing figure with arms raised and two seated figures, and an object which may be a libation vase. |
| 17883 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay jar-sealing with archaic seal-impression elaborate curvilinear design including heads of men and bulls combined. |
| 17895 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. Hunter attacked by 3 rampant bulls (?) a second hunter with a bow helps from behind - behind, a palm tree (?). |
| 17900 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Door of shrine on back of animal; crescent above table on which things are laid; star. |
| 17904 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Introductory scene, 2 standing figures, seated deity; 3 lines of erased inscription. |
| 17920 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Frit. Man shooting gazelle. |
| 17921 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Introductory scene; 2 figures and deity standing; crescent on staff; line of inscription. |
| 17958 | (none) | 1932,1008.169 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Glazed frit. Kneeling man shooting many antlered gazelle. |
| 17959 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Hematite. 2 gazelle; 2 men holding staff between them. |
| 18101 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Seated goddess with altar and tree. |
| 18111B | 32-40-332 | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. Carnelian rings: amethyst double conoids, agate date-shaped and flat oval; blue paste date shaped; agate cylindrical; oval domical agate, large shell cylinder with roughly engraved winged gryphon? And minute carnelian balls, also [B] cylinder seal, glazed frit; a scorpion and a winged gryphon. Also fragments of a [C] copper fibula, bow type. |
| 18114 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. A standing god and goddess: a small nude female figure, 2 dogs (?) and another animal and 3 columns and inscription. |
| 18124A | 32-40-346 | (none) | (none) | [A-DK] Seal impressions. A large collection, giving impressions (baked) of Greek, Persian and Babylonian gems. Green coins, etc. (See separate notes) |
| 18145 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Introduction scene with seated goddess and 1 standing figure and a tree: star and crescent above. |