Impressed
Technique of decorating a surface by pushing another object into the surface.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 12677A | (none) | 1929,1017.380 | (none) | Group: [A] Cylinder seal lapis lazuli. Geometric decoration. [B] Beads. Carnelian rings and lapis double conoids also 1 mottled marble barrel bead. [C-D] Earrings. Silver. A pair. 1 1/2 spiral coils with thickened lunate ends and [E] 1 copper. [F] Copper finger ring. |
| 11462A | (none) | 1929,1017.381 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Subject: seated deity & attendant. With this, probably fastened to it, was a (B) copper pin L. 012, same number L. 20mm D. 11mm |
| 12033 | (none) | 1929,1017.384 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Steatite. Black. 2 Deities standing on either side of a (palm?) tree fixed in a vase. |
| 12040 | (none) | 1929,1017.385 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Calcite. Light green. Translucent. 2 antelopes. |
| 11592 | (none) | 1929,1017.386 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Presentation scene. |
| 11442 | (none) | 1929,1017.387 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Presentation scene: seated goddess and two worshippers; also 2 columns of inscription. With this was a copper pin too decayed to keep: the seal was clearly fastened to the pin by a thread. Inscript: ZI-TAG, KA-SU-DU, =ZI-TAG, Libationer. HC.4. |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.729 | (none) | (none) | |
| 15801 | (none) | 1930,0012.13 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Fragment. Inscribed. |
| 14443A | (none) | 1930,1213.130 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Calcite. Transluscent. 2 registers. Above: Banquet scene. Seated male figure sucking drink end of a tube from a bowl which rests on a stand. Next: a male figure sedentary and seated female. Behind the seated female two attendants. Below: Seated male accosted by a standing figure presents an offering. Table with offerings on it, attendant stands against table stand attendant extracting liquid from a two legged jar. |
| 13703 | (none) | 1930,1213.131 | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. Broken at one end. Geometrical pattern, roughly thus. [drawing] |
| 14962 | (none) | 1930,1213.132 | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. Design, a plam-branch and a running gazelle: above the latter, an eye. |
| 15494 | (none) | 1930,1213.134 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Red jasper. Presentation. |
| 15482 | (none) | 1930,1213.135 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene before seated deity. Inscribed. |
| 14478 | (none) | 1930,1213.137 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. 3 deep grooves, between which 3 pairs of human figures rough primitive work mostly done with a drill-point. |
| 15323 | (none) | 1930,1213.138 | (none) | Stamp seal. Black steatite. Square, with oval handle laterally pierced. Much worn: on the face a design. [drawing] |
| 14476 | (none) | 1930,1213.139 | (none) | Stamp seal. White marble(?) or pebble. scaraboid shape. Rudely engraved below thus: [drawing 1:1] |
| 14441A | (none) | 1930,1213.140 | (none) | Stamp seal. Shell. Archaic. Perforated horizontally through top twice. Seal is cut to represent calf with head bent back over the body. Under side engraved with design of 3 bird headed men rowing a bellum. The bellum is made of reeds intertwined vertically and horizontally. From the furrow and stem of the boat a spike (?) for ramming protrudes horizontally to the line of the boat. Each figure appears to have a circular shield (?) round the body. |
| 15493 | (none) | 1930,1213.142 | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Now dull yellow. glazed. Incised with design of sphinx. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15491 | (none) | 1930,1213.143 | (none) | Stamp seal. Rounded, upper side umbilical. Greenish glaze with design of a dog(?). [drawing 1:1] |
| 15807 | (none) | 1930,1213.144 | (none) | Scaraboid seal. Glazed. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15303 | (none) | 1930,1213.163 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis. 2 men fighting a lion; crescent & star. Poor cutting. |
| 14783 | (none) | 1930,1213.396 | (none) | Seal impression. Large v . perfect sealing with leaf pattern(?) |
| 15018 | (none) | 1930,1213.397 | (none) | Seal impression. Large sealing. Antelopes, man, duck. |
| 14777 | (none) | 1930,1213.398 | (none) | Seal impression. Elaborate design, with Larsa ideogram. |
| 14618A | (none) | 1930,1213.399 | (none) | Seal impression. Linear design. (some resemblance to signs in certain details.) |