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)
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.
16181 (none) 1931,1010.13 (none) Button seal. Steatite. Incised cross on flat side. Convex side also had triple cross incisions and incised circles. Over part of the seal is a white surface that has the appearance of a glaze. Seal has been perforated transversely through the convex side. The white surface is visible also the inside of the perforated hole. [drawing]
1044 (none) (none) B15271 Button seal. White quartzite, oval top. Roughly engraved with date. [drawing]
745B (none) (none) (none) Card Missing
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.
1787 (none) (none) B15697 Chair back. Red clay, two birds flanking trees. [drawing 1:1]
987 (none) (none) (none) Circular tag-label. 5 line inscription with reference to delivery of a cow. IN/No. 2
7084 (none) 1935,0113.389 (none) Clay bowl. Black. Finely burnished. Type.
79 (none) 1923,1110.40 (none) Clay brick-stamps, Fr. of with figs in bold relief. [drawing 1:1]
12974 (none) (none) (none) Clay cylinder. Fragment. 1st sign only of ten lines.
14984 31-16-944 (none) (none) Clay figurine. Of a water buffalo(?) One great ear broken off. [drawing]
13838 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment (jar sealing?) With two incised signs: Ur -? (cf. 13914) HC.2001. (Perhaps SIS3 (Not SIS4))
575 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment (jar sealing?) With two seal impressions. One shows 5 line inscription the other 4 lines, broken.
733 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment with 2 seal impressions. See U.711. Placed in IN/No. 8.
13967 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment with impression of?
734 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment with seal impression of (Im)-gur-Sin, son of Ur-Ninsun servant of Lugalbanda. Duplicate 739 [likely U.739] See U.711. Placed in IN/No. 8.
583 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment with seal impression showing part of a divine figure with left arm raised, right arm perhaps hanging down right side.
582 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment with seal impression showing portions of 3 line inscription, duplicate of U.576 and another impression with standing figure + 2 lines of a broken inscription.
959 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment with seal impression, showing animal figures and a tree.
580 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment with seal impression. Showing a figure resembling Amurru and a standing figure behind.
739 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment with seal impression. Showing divine figure standing before altar. 3-line inscription Imgur-Sin, son of Ur-Ninsun son of Lugal-banda and a second impression showing bottom of standing figures. Duplicate of 738. [Presumably U.738] Placed in IN/No. 8.
579 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment with seal impression. Showing misproportioned standing figure, and the legs of another figure advancing towards him.
581 (none) 1935,0113.746 (none) Clay fragment with seal impression. Standing divine figure with 3 line inscription Seal of -AB-BA son of EN-NA... priest of Nannar.
740 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment with seal impressions. The 1st shows one complete standing figure and one partly broken figure, and one line of a broken inscription. The second has 3-line inscription A-als(ba?) son of En-an-na-du priest of Sin. Placed in IN/No. 8.
598 (none) (none) (none) Clay fragment with two impressions of a seal with 8 lines of inscription, on left seated figure of a divinity, on right standing figure of a worshipper. See U.997-U.999. Placed in IN/No. 8.

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