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)
17044C 31-43-219 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 signet rings. [A-C] 3 plain finger rings [of] copper and [D] 1 plain silver ring. Signet rings have circular bezels.
17044B 31-43-218 (none) (none) [A-D] 4 signet rings. [A-C] 3 plain finger rings [of] copper and [D] 1 plain silver ring. Signet rings have circular bezels.
17028 31-43-69 (none) (none) Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Oval. Upper side convex and umbilical antelope (?) and a bird on its back [drawing 1:1]
17024 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Mottled grey. Hero between a pair of antelopes? Rampant very faintly outlined. [drawing]
17018 (none) 1931,1010.44 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Miniature. 2 standing figures and between them palm rising from a high vase and crescent on a pole.
17017 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Calcite. Grey. Unpierced. Seated god and standing figure before hair.
17016 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Pink. Presentation scene. 3 standing figures and a fourth dwarflike figure.
17015 31-43-52 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 figures before a standing goddess. Goose
17013 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Dark grey. 3 standing figures. Presentation scene.
17011 31-43-5 (none) (none) Terracotta stamp seal. Circular. Perforated top. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16994B (none) (none) (none) Sculptor's trial pieces. (A) Limestone fragment with unfinished engraving of a seated figure : very roughly cut : might well be a study for a cylinder seal. (B) Limestone fragment. Standing figure of a nude man; head and arms broken away : shallow but fairly good work.
16994A (none) (none) (none) Sculptor's trial pieces. (A) Limestone fragment with unfinished engraving of a seated figure : very roughly cut : might well be a study for a cylinder seal. (B) Limestone fragment. Standing figure of a nude man; head and arms broken away : shallow but fairly good work.
16976 (none) 1931,1010.369 (none) Terracotta mould for making a relief of a seated female figure holding a vase on her knees.
16928 (none) (none) (none) Limestone fragment. Jewel-smiths trial piece: a sketch for a cylinder seal: a seated god and introducer and suppliant: roughly worked out design. Possibly from the same source as U.16927, but this is not known.
16927G 31-43-7 (none) (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
16927C (none) 1931,1010.232 (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
16903 (none) (none) (none) Terracotta mould for making a seated figure of a woman, draped, and suckling an infant.
16820C (none) 1931,1010.41 (none) [A-C] 3 steatite cylinder seals. (A) Illegible, save for first sign. (B) Adad ; (C) Awel-ilim (wrt LU.DINGIR.BA), Son of Ur-Dam-bur(?).
16820B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 steatite cylinder seals. (A) Illegible, save for first sign. (B) Adad ; (C) Awel-ilim (wrt LU.DINGIR.BA), Son of Ur-Dam-bur(?).
16820A 31-43-31 (none) (none) [A-C] 3 steatite cylinder seals. (A) Illegible, save for first sign. (B) Adad ; (C) Awel-ilim (wrt LU.DINGIR.BA), Son of Ur-Dam-bur(?).
16819 (none) (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal. (fragment) (not pierced). Na-bi-u(m...) Son of...
16818 (none) (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal. Awel-^dAdad, the attendant of the ...son of...
16809 (none) 1933,1013.52 (none) Shell cylinder seal (not pierced). ^dAdad-ba(?)-ni(?) ,dumu Nu-ur- ^dAdad...
16808 (none) (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal.
16807 (none) (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal.

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