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)
17381 (none) 1931,1010.69 (none) Stamp seal. Baked clay. Green. Figures on three sides. Demon, gazelle, bird and on under side man with hand raised over a spear (?) [drawing 1:1]
17388 (none) 1931,1010.49 (none) Cylinder seal. Frit (?). Galloping animal, linear and cinquefoil designs.
17396 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Agate. Originally had studs at each end. Copper stamp protrudes beyond the end of the seal. Winged dragons. Rampant.
17397 (none) (none) (none) Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Gazelle and crescent moon. [drawing 1:1]
17398 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Dark green. Presentation scene. Crescent moon.
17399 (none) (none) (none) Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Winged dragon squatting. Tab anal. [drawing 1:1]
17401 (none) 1931,1010.38 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Dark green.
17412 (none) (none) (none) Flat seal. Quartzite? Reddish brown. [drawing]
17448 (none) 1931,1010.79 (none) Clay impression. Unbaked. Of bull running, tail up, head down. Outline of body done as a dot border. Style similar to that of bulls on the Ishtar Gate. Fine workmanship. Figure of bull is complete, but the plaque on which it is impressed is a fragment, one side of which is missing.
17601 (none) (none) (none) Not Assigned
17603 (none) 1932,1008.251 (none) Clay mould for nude female figure (broken and mended).
17607 (none) 1932,1008.173 (none) Cylinder seal. White steatite. Solid type, unpierced with 2 columns of inscription, roughly done, and no figures.
17613 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Gazelle betwee 2 trees; crescent above; inverted crescent beneath belly.
17617 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Two men, back to back, fighting two lions; three obliterated lines of inscription.
17621 (none) (none) (none) Sealing. Clay. Perforated for string.
17622 (none) (none) (none) Seal impression. Inscription. Clay. Presentation scene; two figures; one line of semi-erased inscription.
17630 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Red pebble. Roughly circular, but one side worn away = top convex, underside flat with crude design, drill worked, of two animals (?) much obliterated. [drawing]
17638 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Fragmentary; shell. Three scorpions; star.
17649 (none) 1932,1008.178 (none) Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular with ribbed loop handle Mohenjodaro type with characteric Indian bull and inscription of 4 characters. [drawing]
17650 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Youthful huntrer and 4 animals, two lions (?) heraldically crossed flanked by gazelles (?).
17656 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers: above, longest scene with 2 seated figures drinking through tubes and 1 standing attendant. Below, eagle grasping 2 gazelles.
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]
17663 (none) 1932,1008.156 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite, black. 2 lions and 2 gazelles heraldically arranged; a star between the gazelles.
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.

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