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)
18257 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White limestone. Winged monster and scorpion.
18262 (none) 1933,1013.85 (none) Pendant. A shale (?) ring with knob pierced for suspension, in which are set, one on either side, shell rings with a central disk of lapis lazuli: the edges of the shale ring bevelled. [drawing]
18264 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White frit once glazed but the glaze all perished. Gazelle and man.
18274 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Presentation scene, standing god and 2 other standing figures.
18275 (none) (none) (none) Clay sealing from a basket or panel: string marks underneath. The clay has been roughly squeezed together on the strings and then incised on two sides. [drawing 1:1]
18278 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standing figures.
18279 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers: above, presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standign figures. Below, swans. Poorly shaped and poorly cut: much worn.
18281 (none) 1933,1013.81 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steaitte. Star and crascent on staff above altar: naked goddess standing full face: worshipper with basket facing a standing god who rests his foot on a lion (?). Poor work.
18282 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark greenish grey steatite. A naked hunter with 2 lions heraldically crossed and rampant. Rather poor archaic work.
18283 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. A god and a worshipper, standing and 2 columns of inscription.
18293 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Eagle (?) with outspread wings, in angles of fretted zigzag.
18307 (none) 1933,1013.235 (none) Jeweller's trial piece. Fragment of a large pot of of light drab clay on which is roughly scratched the design for a cylinder seal. Subject: seated god and standing god introducing a man behind whom is an ostrich (?).
18330 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. (broken). 2 registers: above, presentation scene with seated god and 2 standing figures: below a line of swans.
18331 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 3 standing figures.
18332 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 3 standing figures.
18333 (none) 1933,1013.73 (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 2 columns of inscription.
18334 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Unfinished. First sketch for lower part of standing human figure.
18346 (none) 1933,1013.78 (none) Cylinder seal of dark purple glazed glazed frit. Two trees (?) and pomegranates (?)
18349 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Darks steatite. Two figures, standing on either side of a date palm.
18350 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Two figures, standing one on either side of a staff whereon a crescent.
18351 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Design destroyed except for 1 standing figure: a single column of inscription.
18354 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Chalcedony. High flattened conical type a worshipper upon a disk set on a staff.
18357 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Carnelian. Broken and one end missing. Two gryphons.
18359 (none) 1933,1013.227 (none) Terracotta mould for a small figure, grotesque, naked, full face, with bent knees, urinating.
18361 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. White marble. Convex above: oval, flat below with a crude design of drilled spots. [drawing 1:1]

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