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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 18452 | 33-35-179 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal of black steatite. Design: running gazelles, zigzags and frogs. |
| 18457 | 33-35-178 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Milky crystal. Geometrical (?) designs in 2 registers. |
| 18343 | 33-35-175 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. Coarse work, much damaged, and apparently unfinished. Men fighting animals. |
| 18258 | 33-35-173 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene. Seated goddess, with 2 standing figures and 2 lizards. Poor condition. |
| 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. |
| 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] |
| 14852 | 32-40-473 | (none) | (none) | Seal impression. Geometrical, including possible sign: Good impression of string. Good impression of string underneath. [drawing] | |
| 18124B | 32-40-347 | (none) | (none) | [A-DK] Seal impressions. A large collection, giving impressions (baked) of Greek, Persian and Babylonian gems. Green coins, etc. (See separate notes) |
| 18124A | 32-40-346 | (none) | (none) | [A-DK] Seal impressions. A large collection, giving impressions (baked) of Greek, Persian and Babylonian gems. Green coins, etc. (See separate notes) |
| 18171 | 32-40-343 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Clay, baked, convex sides. Tree, ladder and rosettes. Very lightly scratched design. |
| 17872 | 32-40-334 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Diorite. Damaged, and part of the surface gone. Design worked entirely with the drill: a standing figure with arms raised and two seated figures, and an object which may be a libation vase. |
| 17850 | 32-40-333, 32-40-333 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder (seal?) unpierced. White limestone with 4 columns of inscription. Two names. NU-UR-KU-BI son of DUG-GA-AN-SA and E-MU-MA-NI-DA son of NU-UR-KU-BI. HC 1931 / 1 |
| 18111B | 32-40-332 | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. Carnelian rings: amethyst double conoids, agate date-shaped and flat oval; blue paste date shaped; agate cylindrical; oval domical agate, large shell cylinder with roughly engraved winged gryphon? And minute carnelian balls, also [B] cylinder seal, glazed frit; a scorpion and a winged gryphon. Also fragments of a [C] copper fibula, bow type. |
| 18179 | 32-40-331 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Glazed frit, glaze perished. Kid and palm tree. |
| 18180 | 32-40-328 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. Two ostriches (?). |
| 18155 | 32-40-327 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Pale amethyst. Warrior in chariot shooting with bow and arrow: a fallen enemy beneath the horse's hooves. Poor cutting. |
| 17871 | 32-40-326 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Badly chipped. Presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and 3 columns of inscription. |
| 17811D | 32-40-325 | (none) | (none) | Group. From one burial. (A) [A, E-I] Six gold earrings, small hollow lunate type, worn in sets of 3 in each earrings, small hollow lunate type, worn in sets of 3 in each ear. (B) Gold finger ring, thin metal with edges bent inwards to form a ribbed hoop. [drawing] (C) Beads: lapis diamonds, gold double conoids, silver disks, carnelian and steatite lentoids. (D) Cylinder seal, shell: hunter and lion and 2 columns of inscription. |
| 17678 | 32-40-324 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679. |
| 17715 | 32-40-322 | (none) | (none) | Seal. Persian type. Chalcedone. Pierced for threading, engraved lines on face [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] |
| 17662 | 32-40-319 | (none) | (none) | Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17835A | 32-40-308 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two lion's heads. Silhouetted in profile. White calcite, originally painted red, but the color gone: both are really stamp seals with rough designs drill-cut on the flat lower surface. Both are pierced for suspension from the top of the head to the bottom of the mane. [drawing] | |
| 16618 | 31-43-9 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Greenish grey steatite. Pyramidal. 2 scorpions. | |
| 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 |