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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18414A | 33-35-432 | (none) | (none) | [A-AG] Clay jar sealing. Fragments of. With impressions all from the same seal: man fighting animals. | |
| 16561A | 31-43-79 | (none) | (none) | [A, C-O] 14 seal impressions. Ibku-Adad, Son of Zazani, Servant of Adad.: H.C. 30/II, 15 | |
 | 16561C | 31-43-86, 31-43-87 | (none) | (none) | [A, C-O] 14 seal impressions. Ibku-Adad, Son of Zazani, Servant of Adad.: H.C. 30/II, 15 |
| 16561D | 31-43-87, 31-43-88 | (none) | (none) | [A, C-O] 14 seal impressions. Ibku-Adad, Son of Zazani, Servant of Adad.: H.C. 30/II, 15 | |
| 16561E | 31-43-88 | (none) | (none) | [A, C-O] 14 seal impressions. Ibku-Adad, Son of Zazani, Servant of Adad.: H.C. 30/II, 15 |
| 17011 | 31-43-5 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta stamp seal. Circular. Perforated top. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] | |
| 16021 | 31-43-25, 31-43-25 | (none) | (none) | Steatite Cylinder seal. Nana son of Gudea,the jeweller. HC.30/I.7. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] | |
| 17245 | 31-43-33, 31-43-33 | (none) | (none) | Steatite cylinder seal. Lazib, son of Bibi.[CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] | |
| 16022 | 31-43-39, 31-43-39 | (none) | (none) | Steatite Cylinder seal. Fragmentary . d.Sulpae son of... HC.30/I.8. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] | |
| 16026 | 31-43-23 | (none) | (none) | Steatite Cylinder seal. Fragment. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] | |
| 19974 | 35-1-18 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17100 | 31-43-67 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Steatite. Black. Conoid. Bearded male figure holding an offering before a throne (?) or altar with a high back in which is planted a spear. Emblems. Fish and crescent moon. [drawing] | |
| 1423 | (none) | (none) | B15596 | Stamp seal. Square button in terracotta with rude incised device of a bird standing among plants. [drawing] |
| 16211 | 31-43-1 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Pink limestone. In the form of a recumbent calf; on the flat back a rough design of 2 animals done with drill-holes and engraved lines. This is an early Sumerian piece which is found ina Persian period grave, and must have been an antiquity. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 18167 | 32-40-320 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Of dark and light grey pebble. Rectangular, with slightly convex top, pierced longitudinally. Rough design on base, of a man with his arms raised and his legs twisted up in an impossible fashion (?) [drawing] |
| 17340 | 31-43-11 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 18337 | 33-35-169 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, with convex tip, pierced horizontally. Subject: 2 animals, a third animal and an unrecognizable object: engraved mostly with the circular drill. |
| 16618 | 31-43-9 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Greenish grey steatite. Pyramidal. 2 scorpions. | |
| 16734 | 31-43-68 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Glazed frit. Palm tree(?) Perforated for suspension. [drawing] |
| 16408 | 31-43-2 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Circular, convex above of striped black and white marble, design almost entirely perished; worked mostly with the drill. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 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] | |
| 16605 | 31-43-6 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Black steatite. Square. Perforated through holder. Pair of crescent moons. Pair of stars; pair of ostriches. [drawing] | |
| 7916 | (none) | (none) | B16906 | Stamp flat seal. One side convex. Calcite. Greyish. Above a reclining beast, possibly a jackal? and below a second beast with big head. | |
| 18285 | 33-35-80 | (none) | (none) | Signet ring. Copper. With oval bezel on which an engraved design, (corroded). | |
| 17121A | 31-43-10 | (none) | (none) | Seals. Two steatite plaques, rectangular and oblong, flat on one side and gabled on the other, the gabled side pierced perhaps for a metal ring handle. A) [drawing 1:1] thus, with rough design of a scorpion. B) smaller but apparently with the same design (much worn) |