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)
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2502 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Inscribed. Glass paste. Bluish white. Broken. Fragments missing. Two lines nearly illegible: ( )-bi-a; ( ) -il. Figures worn, indistinct. Neo-Babylon - Persian Period.
2503 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Not inscribed. greyish soapstone. Weather worn. Presentation to a seated goddess. Worshipper led by the hand. Flat crescent. Pillar-shaped altar [shown in drawing] (double). 24 x 33mm. Babylonian. About BC 2500. [drawing]
2504 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Fragment. Brown limestone. Fragment. One worshipper - one standing figure - of a god: Between them the crescent [shown in drawing] on a short support. About BC 2300
2529 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Soapstone. Slightly concave. Recut. Rough inscription added. [inscription represented here] Perhaps, sal-me zu: thy salme. A special class of votary. The scene represents an introduction to a seated goddess. About 2400 BC. Inscription more recent. [drawing]
2568 (none) (none) (none) _Seal impression_ on Fragment of clay sealing, with marks of strings at the back. Jar stopper : Procession of worshipers approaching [drawing] an altar? or a deity and bringing a kid offering About BC. 2400. Diqdiqqeh 1923-1924
2597 (none) (none) (none) Seal. Green glaze. Cynophelous monkey intaglio: pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
2599 (none) (none) (none) Portion of clay sealing. Seal depicting Gilgamesh and Ea-bani fighting human headed bulls. [drawing 1:1]
2600 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Broken. Black stone-basalt? Two worshippers on either side of a deity. Weapon of Nergal in the field. About BC 2000. [drawing]
2623 (none) (none) (none) Clay label. Zi-am-ili cow of As-la-ba-shi. Same mentioned in temple pay-list (U.2603) dated of Gungunu?as receiving 1/6 of silver shekel. U.2603, Obverse 5 as receiving 1/7 of silver shekel. Reverse has impression of two cords covered by the clay label. [drawing] [organization of original catalog card unclear]
2628 (none) (none) (none) Clay label. Time of Gunguru [inscription transcribed]. 20 ( ) of common cloth. 2 garment cut (us-bar). Hole pierced through to attach on bundle. [drawing]
2649 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Fragment. Soapstone. Scene: Two standing worshippers with one hand up. Behind them in the field the emblem of Nergal: a weapon formed of two curved blades on either side of central club - lion's heads at the end of each blade. [drawing]
2650 (none) (none) (none) Black clay sealing. Impression of the seal of Ama-ab-gi: Ama-ab-gi dam Ses-kal-la : wife of Shesh kal-la. Scene represents a seated goddess hand extended below crescent moon, perhaps holding small vase, and receiving the worshipper. [drawing]
2661 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. grey limestone. Rampant lion attacked by two figures of Gilgamesh. About BC 2600-2300. [drawing]
2684 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Weather worn. Soapstone. [drawing]
2691 87-28-10 (none) (none) Model stool. Drab clay with conventional rush hatching with a border: one leg missing.
2727 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Broken. Weather worn. Volcanic ashes. Basalt? [drawing]
2766 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Diorite. Weathered. Lugal--/son of?/shephard. [drawing]
2796 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Martu period. About BC 2100. [drawing]
2809 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Red marble. About 2700 BC [drawing]
2813 (none) (none) (none) Seal Cylinder. Broken. Diorite. III Ur Dynasty. 2 lines of inscription defaced. Goddess seated on a bird. [drawing] dNannar ( )mu? Servant of Nannar.
2814 (none) (none) (none) Broken Cylinder Seal. Carnelian. Assyrian influence about BC 700. Tree of life and genius. [drawing]
2856 (none) (none) (none) Cone seal. Glazed pottery. Egyptian style. Neo-Babylonian period. [drawing]
2857 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black diorite. About BC 2400 [drawing]
2858 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black limestone. About BC 2100. [drawing]

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