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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)
13566 (none) 1930,1213.34 (none) Copper Razor(?) Flat blade, rounded tang. [drawing 1:1]
13703 (none) 1930,1213.131 (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Broken at one end. Geometrical pattern, roughly thus. [drawing]
13705A (none) (none) (none) (A) Upper quern-stone. dark grey larve. Set in a round-topped lump of bitumen which served as a handle; (B) A lower saddle quern-stone of dark lava.
13713 (none) (none) (none) Model boat. In bitumen (broken). [drawing]
13726 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell. Much worn. Design of 3 fighting animals; the rest of the field divided into 2 registers in which small animal(?) figures.
13745 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small white shell rings. Strung in 2 loops kept together by a little rectangular black steatite spacer. Probably a bracelet. Found on the floor of the room, in order.
13787 (none) (none) (none) Cockle shells. Containing green, black, yellow, and reddish-brown paint.
14001A (none) 1930,1213.390 (none) [A-B] Pair of cockle shells containing yellow ochre paint and a second containing green.
14032 (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 cockle shells. Containing green paint.
14039 (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 pairs cockle shells. Green & yellow paint.
14040 (none) (none) (none) Shell. Cut as a lamp. Normal type.
14089 (none) (none) (none) Shell. Cut as a lamp with trough spout. Normal type.
14216 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Shell. [drawing]
14226 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Theriomachy. Rampant. Decayed. Gazelle & goat(?)
14239A (none) (none) (none) [A-F] 6 cockle shells. Containing bluish green & yellow paint.
14242B (none) 1930,1213.478 (none) [A-B] 2 Copper chisels. Type VI, A.
14270 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. bird-headed men and rampant lions crossed.
14293 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White shell. Rampant lions crossed.
14327 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. Bird-headed men fighting rampant: one of the men grasps a ram(?) which is head downwards by the tail.
14338 (none) (none) (none) Roundel. Mother of pearl. Perforated through centre. Slightly convex on 1 side. [drawing 1:1]
14425 (none) 1930,1213.356 (none) Clay cone. For wall decoration: the blunt end painted black. Not in catalog.
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.
14446 (none) (none) (none) Rosette. Black steatite. With shell centre. Worked on both side: the face convex. [drawing 1:1]
14468 (none) 1930,1213.365 (none) Shell bugle bead. Not in catalog.
14469A (none) (none) (none) Ostrich shell. Badly smashed. One end decorated with mother of pearl rectangular strips and shell inlay in form of small triangles set on bitumen.

Related Terms

Inorganic Remains - Unknown/N/A

Child Terms

Antler - Bitumen - Bone - Leather - Reed - Shell - Textiles - Tooth - Wood - Plants