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.
Objects: Impressed Export: JSON - XML - CSV
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7597 | (none) | 1928,1009.52 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed but obliterated. On left and right 2 naked attendants: between standing figure of (Nannar?) clothed in flounced kaunakes skirt and holding outstretched hand to a small naked figure. Attributes: crescent moon. |
| 7607 | (none) | 1928,1009.30 | (none) | Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Two gazelles rampant heads turned backward to face rampant lion? with feathered neck viz [drawing] and beaked head. Between the gazelles a palm tree. Sargonid? |
| 7615 | (none) | (none) | B16894 | Cylinder seal. Limestone. Grey. Figures faint. Scene of worship. Minor deity leads worshipper by the hand towards seated Nannar. Attributes: crescent moon and palm. | |
| 7616 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Limestone. Grey. Figures faint. 2 rampant lions facing one another; on either side a hero grasps each by the tail. Between the heroes a heavily draped erect deity. Attributes: snake, palm tree? and scorpion? |
| 7617 | (none) | (none) | B16877 | Cylinder seal. Marble. White. 4 bulls rampant of which 3 have human heads, bearded and horned. On either side a rampant lion. Grotesque figure with himan body, animal's head, (possibly a donkey's head??) conical headdress and pig tail? grasps one lion by the tail. c. 3000BC | |
| 7622 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Two registers. Above, two seated deities facing one another, worshipper standing between them. Behind the major god a standing attendant. Below: spread eagle and 2 gazelles facing one another. |
| 7625 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed. Scene of worship. Shaven and shorn votary presented to enthroned Shamash who holds a pot in his left hand. Introducing goddess wears high headdress and flounced kaunakes skirt. Attributes: sun, crescent moon. Inscription: Ur-Su-bu-la; dumu I-me-x; wared Ud-KA-BAR-KU. |
| 7626 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene. Nannar enthroned, left arm upraised to greet votary who holds right arm upwards. Behind the votary a palm three which an erect figure apparently grasps in his right hand. This figure wears a long flowing garment. Nannar has a crescent shaped headdress. Attributes: crescent moon. |
| 7627 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Obliterated. Gates of the underworld? Porter? Divinity with lentoid shaped headdress; 12 stars and crescent moon. |
| 7628 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Font from which rises a palm? On either side a snake? and beyond a hero attacking rampant lion with a sword. Possibly the curved markings at the side of the altar may represent not snakes but handles or running water? [drawing] cf. U.7640 |
| 7630 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Blue steatite. Two registers. Top: 7 figures clothed in short tunics reaching only to the knees approaching standing deity. All wear feathered? headdress. Bottom: male figure running, pursued? by animals amongst which are cows?? |
| 7641 | (none) | (none) | B16861 | Cylinder seal. Green stone. Slightly concave. Broken in antiquity but remended and complete. Gilgamesh and Enkidu back to back the former fighting a rampant bull the latter fighting a rampant lion. | |
| 7656 | (none) | (none) | B16865 | Cylinder seal. Marble. Mottled grey and black. Slightly concave. Gilgamesh fighting rampant lion; Enkidu fighting rampant bull; lion and bull back to back. c. 2800BC. | |
| 7657 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Blue. 2 registers. Bangquet scene. Above: seated god holding food? in upright left hand. nest a second seated figure holding up left hand to greet a standing attendant. Third seated figure also holding food in upraised left hand, and standing figure also holding food? opposite. All are shaven and shorn and wear sheep skin dresses. Below: A seated figure holding up hand towards door of shrine? Behind him a second seated figure holding up food which has been handed him by standing attendant. Behind this seated god a standing attendant facing the door of the shrine hands upraised. All have heads shaven and shorn and sheep skin dresses like figures on top register. c. 3000BC. |
| 7658 | (none) | (none) | B16890 | Cylinder seal. Marble? White. Hero between two rampant bulls? On either side of bulls a rampant lion. Between the lions a post surmounted by a star. | |
| 7679 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Very slightly concave. Two naked heroes attacking a rampant lion. One grasps lion by the tail. |
| 7680 | (none) | (none) | B16893 | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Obliterated. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated presiding deity. | |
| 7681 | (none) | 1928,1009.14 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Fragment. White marble. Rampant lion. Rampant bull. Attacked by hero with feathered headdress. |
| 7683 | (none) | 1928,1009.56 | (none) | Flat seal. Rectangular base with rounded corners. Half cylinder pierced superimposed. Steatite. Mottled grey. Inscribed. Powerful bull=like animal with head bent downwards. In style of Mohenjo Daro seals. |
| 7690 | (none) | 1928,1009.57 | (none) | Flat seal. Pyramidal. 5 round cavities on flat side [drawing of pattern] |
| 7700 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay seal impression. Roughly cube-shaped lump with beginning of same inscription on each face. cf. U.6360, doubtless seal of son of present Sinikisan who had same name as his grandfather Ilusu-ibisa. Date = Hammurabi. HC.3 |
| 7714 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay seal impression. Pyramidal lump containing part of same impression on each face. A servant of Dimtabba? HC.14. |
| 775 | (none) | (none) | B15248 | Carnelian cylinder seal. Archer in chariot driving rt. shoots at kneeling archer l. Late style with a good deal of drill point work, but not bad. ? 8th century. | |
| 776 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 fig of adorants approaching a god l. with crescent above: behind, 4 small fig. in 2 registers: good work. |
| 7784 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal impression Shape as U.7714 Seal of Ilushu-ibisha son of Siniqishum Inscription identical with U.7700; shows also figure of worshipper. Hammurabi |