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)
8926 (none) (none) B16888 Cylinder seal. Lapis Lazuli. 2 registers. Above: 1 seated and 2 standing figures. Below: men [illegible] animals
8119 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers. Above: 2 seated deities in sheep skin skirts facing one another. One arm upraised. A standing figure between facing one of them. Beyond; the gate of a shrine? thus - [drawing]. Below: 3 seated deities wearing sheep skin skirts. 2 behind one another. A third opposite. Between them a palm? rising from a high bowl with a pedestal thus - [drawing]. One deity strikes it with a sword? the other holds a branch with his hand.
8228 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Gilgamesh between 2 lions and Eabani with a bull.
8410 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone. White. Deeply cut - poor condition. Fighting men - fighting bulls.
8290 (none) (none) B16863 Cylinder seal. Shell. Pinkish. Slightly blackened by fire. Two registers. Subject indistinct. Above: A spread eagle. Below: A kneeling? man, and a snake? occupying the full length of the seal 2 winged dragons, crossed, and a rampant bull.
8141 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Partly obliterated. At the base of the seal in high relief a lion, body in profile head and forelegs full face. Winged dragon? gazelle, and hero attacking bull. 2 bearded bulls rampant, crossed, with man's heads.
8202 (none) 1928,1009.44 (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Much decayed and scarcely legible. Scene, Gilgamesh and lion, Eabani and bull.
14226 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Theriomachy. Rampant. Decayed. Gazelle & goat(?)
15777 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay.
16749 31-43-19 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. 2 crescents on poles and an X. Rough work.
16612 31-43-53 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Baked clay. Presentation scene. 3 standing deities. Crescent moon and Palm.
16709 31-43-44 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Nude female standing; god in long skirt, right foot tree and poised on a low stool, raises hand in greeting to a standing warrior who is clad in a short tunic.
19242 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black shale? Men and animals.
19217 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite, carniated. Hero fighting animals.
16628 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 standing figures on either side of a palm tree which rises from a vase: behind one of the figures a camel.
16631 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 standing figures, between them a pole, goose(?) and behind it a second pole.
16639 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 3 human figures and a rampant lion.
18922 35-1-16 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. A god driving a chariot drawn by a winged gryphon(?); between the wings rises a goddess armed with a bow, in front of it is another god. One column of inscription. Inscription: Ur-gis-me-e (C.J.G.)
18947 35-1-11 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. A spread eagle grasping two wild goats.
15479 31-17-130 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Chariot drawn by an antelope(?) headed by a man. Emblem-spread eagle.
16614 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Coarse cutting. Presentation scene: 2 standing figures before an enthroned god.
15801 (none) 1930,0012.13 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Fragment. Inscribed.
19004 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Hunter fighting animals.
15480 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed. Presentation scene before seated deity. In front of the seated deity, sits a dog. (wrongly numbered on photo-print U.15580)
14082 31-43-242 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Men fighting rampant lion.

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