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)
19578 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. 2 registers, above, banquet scene, below, animal.
19579 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Square, with pierced pyramidical top. A lizard and 2 scorpions.
19869 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Two human-headed bulls with birds on their backs : spread eagle, fish and animals.
19870 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Frit. A kneeling archer shooting at a star (?) x619
19871 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Seated deity and 2 standing figures : 2 columns and inscription.
19872 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Steatite 3 standing figures (poor and worn)
19975 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. [drawing 1:1]
20038 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis. Man fighting animals.
20047 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Amethestine quartz. A man kneeling and catching a gazelle. Scratching work. [annotated] Persian period dated by iron swords, scarab, etc.
20050 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Fighting animals heraldically crossed.
20051 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Standing nude figure : a statue (?) : scorpion, kids, and a chariot drawn by birds (?)
20052 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. One seated and two standing figures. Apparently unfinished cutting.
20053 (none) (none) (none) Trial piece. Fragment of white marble vase on which a gem-cutter's sketch for a seated figure of a goddess. On the reverse, another similar figure and some cuneiform signs.
20062 (none) 1935,0112.39 (none) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Geometrical design.
20063 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Seated goddess, table, and 2 standing figures.
20064 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Two standing figures and a tree.
20094 (none) 1935,0112.44 (none) Cylinder seal. Half of (split longitudinally). Shell. Two registers. Above, 4 standing figures of man[?]. Below, 2 men punting a boat : a large jar in the prow.
17911E (none) (none) (none) Group from one burial. (A) Gold frontlet. (B) 3 twisted gold hair ribbons [B and I-J], (C) 2 gold hair rings [C and K], spirally coiled with hollow lunate ends. (D) 2 necklaces [D and L], one of gold ribbed balls between agate lentoids, the other of flat agate lentoids, 1 flat barrel lapis lazuli, 2 carnelian bugles, 1 granite lentoid. 3 double conoid lapis lazuli, 1 flat barrel amber. (E) Shell cylinder seal. Obscured. (F) Silver spiral finger ring (G) 2 silver bracelets (H) Silver pin, round with square tang
17912E (none) (none) (none) Group from one burial. (A) [A and J] 2 Gold frontlets. (B) [B and K]2 tubular gold bracelets (C) Gold earring, spirally coiled with lunate ends (D) [D and L] 2 silver bracelets, single wire (E) Cylinder seal, lapis lazuli, introductory scene, 2 standing figures and seated deity; crescent above god; (F) Necklace of gold balls between carnelian bugles, flat lentoid chalcedones, carnelian barrels, carnelian ball, agate lentoid, green chalcedone bugles. (G) Axe, type XVIII, [H-I] Copper objects [These are drawn on the field catalog card, but not assigned subdivisions by Woolley][drawing]
18121D (none) (none) (none) [A] Beads. Agate ball and carnelian balls and double conoids; chalcedony double conoid; lapis, jasper agate and carnelian date-shaped; jasper (?) double conoid; [B] amethyst scaraboid; [A] steatite flattened balls; glazed frit discoid; [C-D] 2 glazed frit thick discoids with criss-cross on one side: [E] small glazed scaraboid with bungled heiroglyphs: [F] pebble scaraboid. Roughly incised thus: [drawing] [G] carnelian domical ovoid roughly engraved with figure of deer (?); [H] small puzuzu head in turquoise: [I] chalcedony seal, with Persian figure of a man standing in prayer. [drawing] [J] Also: a copper fibula. [drawing]
18212A (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Broken and incomplete. Remains of presentation scene, and inscription.
14626C (none) (none) (none) Seal impression in fragments.
14626D (none) (none) (none) Seal impression in fragments.
14626E (none) (none) (none) Seal impression in fragments.
14626F (none) (none) (none) Seal impression in fragments.

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