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

Objects: Impressed Export: JSON - XML - CSV Clay Seals and Sealings

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
14000 31-16-616 (none) (none) Seal impression. Cult scene. Naked man with pot before seated figure, behind him pots and another object.
13984 31-16-628 (none) (none) Seal impression. Gazelles and trees.
13982 31-16-658 (none) (none) Seal impression. Scorpion?
13980 31-16-607 (none) (none) Seal impression. Gazelle, vegetation, man and jar.
13979 31-16-641 (none) (none) Seal impression. Hunting(?) man, stars, eagle, tree.
13972 31-16-674 (none) (none) Seal impressions. Geometrical designs (and altars ??).
13969 31-16-644, 31-16-644 (none) (none) Seal impression. Inscription. HC..217.
13954 31-16-679 (none) (none) Seal impression. Arabesque.
13938 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Finely cut figures: scorpion, ass, monkey? bull-head, etc. This seal is more clearly represented on 13963.
13936 31-16-634 (none) (none) Seal impression. Geometrical.
13933 31-16-645 (none) (none) Seal impressions. Geometrical, perhaps belonging together.
13912 31-16-675 (none) (none) Seal impression. Rosette, altars and vessels?? etc.
13880B 31-16-615 (none) (none) Seal Impression. Geometrical Design. Two pieces joined. one found several days later. This is better a tablet than a jar-sealing. Also another "Tablet" with same impression.
13872 31-16-622 (none) (none) Seal impression. Scorpion, etc.
13846 31-16-631 (none) (none) Seal Impressions. 2 pieces. Geometrical design as 13817
13814A 31-16-618 (none) (none) Seal impression. Man and ? Fragmentary. Inscription? HC.208.
13722 31-17-24 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Translucent white quartzite(?) oval, flat below & rounded above: on the flat base, traces of an animal design mostly done with a drill-point, in dots joined up by rough engraving; the design really unrecognisable now. [drawing 1:1]
13711 31-17-15 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. With linear design.
13688 31-16-667 (none) (none) Seal impression. Man with radiate hair and animals.
13687 31-16-610 (none) (none) Seal impression. Scorpion? Man with radiate hair, lion.
13681 31-16-621 (none) (none) Seal impression. men, animals (?) and caduceus(?) PR 1404
13663 31-17-23 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Broken. God and worshipper, crescent and emblem. Fragment of inscription. steatite. HC.1929/30 - 100.
13653 31-16-629 (none) (none) Jar-sealing. Archaic human figures and unidentified details.
13607A 31-16-677 (none) (none) Jar-sealing. [A-B] Two large fragments. Original diam. part. c. 013 Inscription: (me)s (?)-an-ni-p(ad)-da Lugal Kiski dam nu-gig. Left of inscriptions: naked man holding lion by tail, lion facing another man. Right of inscriptions: Lion attacks caprid; fine gilgamis figure holding caprid; himself attacked by lion. Below inscription: square design of four little naked men (note hair or headdress) each attacking one in front? with dagger (of different sorts.) Hc. 1929/30-4.
13552 31-17-125 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Crude cutting.

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