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)
18821 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark. Two standing figures, an emblem on a post, and two scorpions.
18830 (none) 1935,0112.55 (none) Stamp seal. Square. Dark mottled steatite. A spread eagle holding in one claw a club(?) and with the other clasping a small human figure.
18835 (none) 1935,0112.74 (none) Clay jar-sealing. Burnt black. With 3 incomplete seal-impressions shewing presentaiton sceneand inscriptions. mark of jar neck inside.
18847 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity and two standing figures, and two columns of inscription. Much worn.
18849 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hard black steatite. Worshipper and minor god before Nin-gal; behind her, a small figure of a god standing on an animal. Photo +.
18882 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Crystal. Seated deity and two standing figures, and two columns of inscription. Chipped behind shoulder of seated figure.
18883 (none) 1935,0112.50 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Two men fighting beasts (the latter partly chipped away) and a standing god holding thunderbolt(?).
18884 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Very much worn and defaced. A seated deity and two standing figures, and a thrid standing figure by a door(?).
18889 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Seated Nin-gal, worshipper and symbols.
18896 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Two seated figures and a palm tree(?).
18897A (none) (none) (none) Copper objects. [A] a pin, straight and with rounded head (type 8), [B-C] two bracelets and [D-G] four finger rings, together with [H] 4 beads, fixed together by oxidation.
18898 (none) 1935,0112.46 (none) Cylinder Seal. Dark steatite. Two lions attacking two gazelles.
18899 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Seated deity and two standing figures. Poor.
18902 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Criss-cross lines?
18913 (none) (none) (none) Cyl;inder seal. Dark steatite, grey. Seated Ningal, 2 standing figures, a bird and a scorpion, etc.
18915 (none) 1935,0112.53 (none) Cylinder seal. Quartzite. Criss-cross marking.
18916 (none) 1935,0112.48 (none) Cylinder seal. Greenish-grey steatite. Seated deity and two standing figures, and a tree.
18917 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled lapis lazuli. Two registers: above, hero and fighting animals; below, heroes fighting animals.
18918 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Brown steatite. Carinated type./ A hero bestriding a bull; a star; a second hero on one knee throws a lion over his shoulder. Two columns of inscriptions supported byb a goat: water below. Remarkably fine cutting.
18920 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled steatite. God in a shrine of which each door is guarded by an attendant: two columns of inscription. Inscription uncertain (C.J.G.)
18921 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Men fighting animals.
18926 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Two figures seated and drinking through tubes, and a standing attendant.
18928 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Grey hematite. Square, with tubular handle. A seated figure to whom an attendant offers a spouted libation vase. Very curious cutting, especially in the faces.
18949 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Two seated figures and standing attendant; two columns of inscription. Inscription: Ur... (rest of name illegible in photograph) son of Ur-Nanna-pad-da. (C.J.G.)
18951 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two gazelles and small figures of two men in a boat. Very bad cratchy cutting.

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