Decoration

This is anything that is added or subtracted from the surface of an object, usually for artistic purposes.

Objects: Decoration Export: JSON - XML - CSV Clay Seals and Sealings

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
17340	31-43-11	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1]
18337	33-35-169	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, with convex tip, pierced horizontally. Subject: 2 animals, a third animal and an unrecognizable object: engraved mostly with the circular drill.
16618	31-43-9	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Greenish grey steatite. Pyramidal. 2 scorpions.
16734	31-43-68	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Glazed frit. Palm tree(?) Perforated for suspension. [drawing]
16408	31-43-2	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Circular, convex above of striped black and white marble, design almost entirely perished; worked mostly with the drill. [drawing 1:1]
13722	31-17-24	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Translucent white quartzite(?) oval, flat below & rounded above: on the flat base, traces of an animal design mostly done with a drill-point, in dots joined up by rough engraving; the design really unrecognisable now. [drawing 1:1]
16605	31-43-6	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Black steatite. Square. Perforated through holder. Pair of crescent moons. Pair of stars; pair of ostriches. [drawing]
18284	33-35-170	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Facetted conical: chalcedony. Persian type. Two standing figures worshipping before an altar: crescent above.
7916	(none)	(none)	B16906	Stamp flat seal. One side convex. Calcite. Greyish. Above a reclining beast, possibly a jackal? and below a second beast with big head.
18285	33-35-80	(none)	(none)	Signet ring. Copper. With oval bezel on which an engraved design, (corroded).
17121A	31-43-10	(none)	(none)	Seals. Two steatite plaques, rectangular and oblong, flat on one side and gabled on the other, the gabled side pierced perhaps for a metal ring handle. A) [drawing 1:1] thus, with rough design of a scorpion. B) smaller but apparently with the same design (much worn)
6872	(none)	(none)	B16315	Seal. Stone. Convex on one side, flat on the other. Round incisions on the flat side. Pierced. Before 3000 BC. B.
17662	32-40-319	(none)	(none)	Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1]
17715	32-40-322	(none)	(none)	Seal. Persian type. Chalcedone. Pierced for threading, engraved lines on face [drawing 1:1].
6066	(none)	(none)	B16292	Seal. Black steatite. Triangular shape scorpion and? Lizard? About BC 2600. E.
6988	(none)	(none)	B16302	Seal. Amethyst. Blue-violet. Flat on one side, convex on the other but not completely rounded, apex top. Hawk with spread wings, legs crossed in middle of breast. Neo-Babylonian. E.
7027	(none)	(none)	B16301	Seal. White steatite. Round. Hole perforated horizontally through hemispherical sides. Flat on one side, hemispherical on the other. Hemispherical side has 3 grooves 0002 wide in all bisecting it and concentric circles decoration, 4 in all, 2 on either side of the bisecting line. On flat side in middle enthroned Nannar both hands supporting a post with a crescent moon which is also supported by a bull-man. Behind the throne a similar bull-man also supporting a crescent moon on a post, and below the throne a bull with high horns, crescent shaped. Bull-men (Eabani) are ithyphallic. Hair on legs of Eabani. E. Before 3000 BC.
14136	31-16-632	(none)	(none)	Seal imressions. Gazelles. (2 sealings from same).
14140	31-16-619	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. 2 fragments (vegetational) U.14140 has circular stamping also(?)
14103	37-7-103	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. Three more impressions from the same cylinder as 13970 adding a new city ideogram and some other signs and ornaments.. HC.218 UET II: 332).
14101	31-16-655	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. Three more impressions from the same cylinder as 13970 adding a new city ideogram and some other signs and ornaments.. HC.218
14128	31-16-624	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. Linear design.
13933	31-16-645	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. Geometrical, perhaps belonging together.
13972	31-16-674	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. Geometrical designs (and altars ??).
14123A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal impressions. Elaborate geometrical design. Also another [B] more fragmentary example.