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)
17660C (none) (none) (none) Group. From a single grave (A) [A, E-F] 3 gold earrings, small hollow lunate type. (B) Beads: very small gold balls: carnelian rings and balls and 1 bugle, marble and steatite elongated lentoids, agate square and conoid pendant (?) (or spindle whorl) apparently of wood : original order mostly preserved. (C) Cylinder seal: shell. Two rampant animals: very poor and worn. (D) A pair of thick copper bangles [D and G]
17662 32-40-319 (none) (none) Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1]
17665 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. 1 man attacked by 4 lions rampant; 1 man fleeing; wounded lion on ground ?
17676 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Gazelle; fish; diamond motif.
17677 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. 2 male figures flanking draped female figure; one man with staff; erased transcript.
17678 32-40-324 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679.
17688 (none) (none) (none) Sealing. Clay. Inscribed. [drawing 1:1]
17695A (none) (none) (none) 3 Cylinder seals glazed frit. (A) Man hunting gazelle; tree. (B) Man hunting gazelle; tree, and star above. (C) Apparently the same motif. -- All bordered with same triangle pattern motif.
17695B (none) (none) (none) 3 Cylinder seals glazed frit. (A) Man hunting gazelle; tree. (B) Man hunting gazelle; tree, and star above. (C) Apparently the same motif. -- All bordered with same triangle pattern motif.
17695C (none) (none) (none) 3 Cylinder seals glazed frit. (A) Man hunting gazelle; tree. (B) Man hunting gazelle; tree, and star above. (C) Apparently the same motif. -- All bordered with same triangle pattern motif.
17701 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Introductory scene; 1 seated figure, 2 standing, in upper half of seal; bottom half obscured.
17702 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Clay. Tree encircled with fillet between 2 adoring figures; crescent on staff.
17705 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Woman being presented by goddess to major goddess; geese beneath, in lower half.
17708 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Woman being presented by goddess to seated major goddess; crescent between goddesses; geese beneath.
17713 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Introductory scene; standing Gilgamesh figure; seated Ningal, crescent above; another standing figure; incomplete.
17715 32-40-322 (none) (none) Seal. Persian type. Chalcedone. Pierced for threading, engraved lines on face [drawing 1:1].
17721 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Clay. Bull, kneeling, with crescent and star over back; tree; ladder; one line of inscription.
17727 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Man, standing, facing gazelle with eagle displayed over back; man kneeling behind gazelle; crescent on staff.
17732 (none) (none) (none) Seal. Chalcedony. Persian. [drawing 1:1]
17736 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Clay. Trellis pattern and wheel.
17737 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Broken; seated figure; standing figure; line of inscription; scorpion. Son of Ur^d- HC 1931/5.
17739 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Running gazelles.
17740 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone. Man shooting gazelle.
17741 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Introductory scene; seated deity; line of inscription. GU-DE-A. HC 1931/4.
17742 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Introductory scene; standing deity.

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