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)
16694 (none) 1931,1010.29 (none) Cylinder seal. Unbaked clay. 4(?) standing figures and a conventionalised tree(?).
16551 (none) 1931,1010.30 (none) Cylinder seal, steatite. Lugal... H.C. 30/II, 7.
17337 (none) 1931,1010.32 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. (Inscribed) Part of 2 signs remain. Half only remains. Enthroned god. Crescent moon.
16803 (none) 1931,1010.33 (none) Steatite cylinder seal.
16123 (none) 1931,1010.34 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers. Above: presentation scene - 3 standing figures. Below: geese(?).
16976 (none) 1931,1010.369 (none) Terracotta mould for making a relief of a seated female figure holding a vase on her knees.
16024 (none) 1931,1010.37 (none) Steatite Cylinder seal. Illegible. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17311 (none) 1931,1010.37 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Fragment. Two registers. Above. Palm on a high vase, one one side seated figure saluting, on the other a standing figure saluting. Below. Geese (?)
17401 (none) 1931,1010.38 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Dark green.
16602 (none) 1931,1010.39 (none) Cylinder seal. Greenish grey steatite.
17324 (none) 1931,1010.40 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Theriomachy. Figures roughly cut.
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(?).
16664 (none) 1931,1010.42 (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Presentation scene: 2 standing figures before an enthroned god.
17018 (none) 1931,1010.44 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Miniature. 2 standing figures and between them palm rising from a high vase and crescent on a pole.
16751 (none) 1931,1010.45 (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Unpierced.
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.
16329 (none) 1931,1010.48 (none) Cylinder seal. Glass paste. Standing male(?) figure, pair of gazelles(?) Sacred tree(?) and above guilloche pattern.
17388 (none) 1931,1010.49 (none) Cylinder seal. Frit (?). Galloping animal, linear and cinquefoil designs.
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.
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.
17084 (none) 1931,1010.539 (none) Vase. Baked clay. With 4 hug handles and incised decoration. Type 1)LXVIII. =L.
16126 (none) 1931,1010.57 (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Linear markings. Phoenician script. To be deciphered. 2 signs ? only.
16638 (none) 1931,1010.62 (none) Flat seal. Ovoid. White limestone. Scorpion? and 5 circles. [drawing]
16610 (none) 1931,1010.63 (none) Stamp seal. White marble? 3 animals, one of them a gazelle? [drawing]
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]

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