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)
1115 (none) 1924,0920.179 (none) Seal. Black burnt clay. Incised lines on face. [drawing]
11150 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Brownish mottled marble. Enkidu and Eabani attacking a rampant lion from in front and from behind a third hero attacking a rampant bull. Standing upright in the ground a (throwing spear) with a loop. Slightly concave. Strong bold cutting. [drawing]
11159 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell. Much decayed. Visible only remains of a scene of rampant animals.
11175A (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seals. Shell. [A} A good deal decayed: design of fighting animals. At one end the hole is of normal size: at the other end it is much enlarged and into it is fitted [B] a second cylinder, engraved with rope-net pattern and a bull.
11175B (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seals. Shell. [A} A good deal decayed: design of fighting animals. At one end the hole is of normal size: at the other end it is much enlarged and into it is fitted [B] a second cylinder, engraved with rope-net pattern and a bull.
11176 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. Very badly decayed.
11178 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. Completely decayed, but apparently with large rampant animals and an inscription of which only one sign is legible. [drawing]
11181 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Handle type, rectangular. Scorpion. [drawing 1:1]
11182 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Birds and animals very roughly done.
1133 (none) 1924,0920.119 (none) Clay jar-stopper. Fragment with impression of archaic cylinder seal. Erect animals and men. [drawing 1:1]
1134 (none) (none) (none) Clay jar-stopper. Fragment with impression of archaic cylinder seal. Erect animals and men. (the sealing defaced by impression of thumb-mark) [drawing 1:1]
11401 30-12-23 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Pinkish grey steatite. Early type. Subject: 2 figures with bird-like heads seated facing each other and drinking through tubes from a common vessel. They are seated in a boat with high stem and prow, a reed plant (?) at the end of the boat and below objects like reed bundles.
11402 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis lazuli. Subject: A god wearing long dress with transverse folds, standing left holding a club (?) with water falling from his shoulders: on either side of him a group of 2 standing naked figures with horned crowns; each pair has 2 arms raised & crossing. 2 holding between them a staff? Poor thin cutting.
11403 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene: goddess seated rt. with crescent moon above: a god introduces a worshipper. Behind, a column of inscription erased. Commonplace work of IIIrd. Dynasty type.
11404 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. Subject: 2 groups each composed of a man fighting a lion and a gazelle (?) respectively: the latter scene decayed. Carinated type.
11405 30-12-39 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. Presentation scene: Seated goddess: before her a female worshipper introduced by a goddess.
11410 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Subject: 2 men fighting a lion.
11415 30-12-48 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Grey steatite. (Found broken and in bad condition)
11416 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone? Very poor work. [drawing]
11418 30-12-29 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Green Jasper. Two men fighting 2 lions, the latter heraldically crossed, and an inscription in 2 lines. Inscription: UrdGIS-BIL-ga-mes dub-sar sumu Urd KA-DI = Ur-Gilgames scribe, son of Ur-KA-DI. HC.1928/9-2.
11420 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled and veined steatite. Subject: presentation scene- a god seated rt. and four standing figures.
11426 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene, 1 seated and 2 standing figures.
11428 30-12-51 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell much decayed.
11438 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis. Presentation: a seated goddess, one attendant behind, and one worshipper standing in front of her.
11439A (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal & pin. [A] Copper pin with plain tang head stem thickened & pierced near top. [B] To this was attached a cylinder seal of brown clay with a scene of 2 men fighting animals, roughly engraved.

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