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)
11448 30-12-22 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark grey steatite. 2 winged animals, heraldically crossed.
11449 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Square with tubular handle, one corner anciently broken. Scene: a worshipper before Ningal.
11456 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black and white breccia. Subject: animals and men fighting. Inscription GUR-na. [drawing] HC..6.
11458 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis with gold caps.
11464 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis. Scene: 4 figures making offerings to (?), a palm tree.
11473 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Of rock crystal. Unfinished. 3 figures, 1 seated, 2 standing, have been roughly ground out all but the heads: no engraving as yet, but grinding only. The cylinder is bored and in the bore-hole ridges have been worked to take colored paste.
11480 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Mostly hidden by 2 silver coiled wire earrings through which it passes. [drawing 1:1]
11483 30-12-27 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Green stone. Scene: 2 men fighting 2 animals.
11488 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis. Meander ribbon pattern in 2 registers.
11492 30-12-25 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Green stone. Scene: 3 men & 2 lions fighting: one of the men has 4 bulls legs.
11496 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Black & white breccia (?) palm tree & 4 figures.
11499 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis. A man fighting two animals.
11507 30-12-30 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Of green marble (?) Unfinished. The hole is only partly bored. One standing figure has been sketched but not finished, of a second only the trunk is suggested.
11521C (none) (none) (none) Tomb Group. Consisting (A) A gold frontlet, oval decorated edge with half-punctured dots, as also round the string-holes at each end: broken & parts missing. (B) Beads: a quantity of small lapis balls & a string of gold & carnelian bugles with lapis balls (see Field Notes) (C) A string-sealing of bitumen, a flattened ovoid.
11528 30-12-8 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell much decayed. Subject: a man & 2 lions rampant against a deer? upside down.
11533 30-12-24 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. Scene.
11554 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Animals and rosette.
11566 30-12-14 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers: above, 2 bulls & trees; below, 2 gazelles & trees.
11580 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. 2 registers. Presentation scenes.
11581 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis with gold caps. A man, animals & a palm tree.
11582 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Dark brown mottled steatite. Presentation scene.
11590 30-12-34 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Inscription: Lugal-sa(g)-su(d) dumu Ka-ma.
11598A 30-12-35 (none) (none) Group. [A](1) Cylinder Seal, lapis, man, lion & gazelle]. [B](2) Copper Axe Type XVII. [C](3) A few beads of lapis and copper.
11600A 30-12-399B (none) (none) [A-B] Cylinder Seal & Pin. White shell cylinder, geometric pattern. Found with the copper pin plain head. [drawing]
11602 (none) (none) (none) Inscribed Cylinder. Yellowish pebble. Unpierced. Roughly cut. 2 figures saluting an emblem (crescent on staff) Inscrip. Ur-Ki-sikil-la dumu A-tu-mug. HC.1928/9-1.

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