Impressed

A process of decorating a surface by pushing another object into the surface, like a stamp or seal.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
16190	31-43-8	(none)	(none)	Amulet. Shell. Flattened double conoid. Engraved with design of snaked(?)
18341	33-35-164	(none)	(none)	Animal's body. Grey steatite. Body of couchant animal, the hind quarters complete, in fairly high relief: the front leg only sketched: the stone is rounded off at the shoulder so that there never was a head. The body is flat and bears two engraved signs thus. [drawing]
16397	31-43-74	(none)	(none)	Button seal. Baked clay. Glazed. Bleached white. Stamped with scorpion. Dome-shaped bulbous dome stamped with 4 concentric circles. [drawing]
17341	31-43-76	(none)	(none)	Button seal. Steatite(?). White. Fragment. Half only remains. Animals. With a boss on the upper side perforated for suspension.
1044	(none)	(none)	B15271	Button seal. White quartzite, oval top. Roughly engraved with date. [drawing]
775	(none)	(none)	B15248	Carnelian cylinder seal. Archer in chariot driving rt. shoots at kneeling archer l. Late style with a good deal of drill point work, but not bad. ? 8th century.
18490	33-35-465	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealing (fragment) with impression of seal apparently in script (black) [drawing]
18403	33-35-331	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealing, fragment of. Bearing a very clear impression of the cloth which was wrapped round it.
18405	33-35-344	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealing, fragment of. With elaborate design including human figures.
18412	33-35-389	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealing. Fragment of. Scene of soldiers marching.
18411	33-35-388	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealing. Fragment of. Scene of two men with pots etc.
18398	33-35-297	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealing. Fragment of. Stamped with linear design apparely including script elements. Good example.
18410	33-35-387	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealing. Fragment of. With scene of two men fighting: pots and a gazelle.
18399A	33-35-300	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealings, Fragments of. Impressed with complicated linear designs in fine raised lines.
18413A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealings. Fragment of unclassified designs, mostly with men and animals.
18413B	33-35-415	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealings. Fragment of unclassified designs, mostly with men and animals.
18413C	33-35-423	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealings. Fragment of unclassified designs, mostly with men and animals.
18413D	33-35-427	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealings. Fragment of unclassified designs, mostly with men and animals.
18408A	33-35-377	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealings. Fragments of impressed with design of animals playing musical instrumentes.
18400A	33-35-305	(none)	(none)	Clay jar sealings. Fragments of. With curvilinear diaper pattern and pear-shaped filling ornament. One fragment has above the diaper pattern a row of animals.
18253	33-35-189	(none)	(none)	Clay seal impression. Archaic. Broken and incomplete. A naked man fighting, two heraldically crossed animals: a crouched bull and a seated goddess.
18289	33-35-259	(none)	(none)	Clay seal impression. From a cylinder. Standing figure of worshipper, with shaven head and long dress.
18310	33-35-260	(none)	(none)	Clay seal impression. In a rectangular frame a guilloche, the strands made up of 3 narrow bands at one end, remains of an animal scene.
18311	33-35-261	(none)	(none)	Clay seal impression. Long strip of clay on which a very fair impression. A standing figure (?): before him a small figure fallen backwards (?): behind him two dwarflike figure in violent action (?) = above a guilloche: beyond them, two rampant beasts heraldically crossed (?)
18325	33-35-262	(none)	(none)	Clay seal impression. Men and animals fighting. [Note on back of card reads Check in Catalog of Vol. IV, was there, but has been removed. The note is signed [illegible], and dated 1936.]