Grinders/Pestles/Pounders

This category includes handheld objects used to grind food or objects.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
9041	(none)	(none)	(none)	Grindstone (Whetstone) Hole perforated through top. Part of copper wire from which grindstone was suspended remains in position in the hole. Part of top missing. Rounded in section. Common type.
8490	(none)	(none)	(none)	Grindstone Roughly triangular with rounded edges. Slight hollow at one end. [drawing] 1:1
825	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone pestle. of hard whitish limestone.
7543	(none)	1928,1009.429	(none)	Pestle. Greyish marble. Cylindrical with hemispherical top and bottom. Bottom slightly wider than top. [drawing 1:1]
6990	(none)	(none)	(none)	Grinder. Diorite? Black. Highly polished. Oval shaped, Long sides flat, short sides rounded. E.
6405	(none)	(none)	(none)	Grindstone. Broken.
17704	(none)	(none)	(none)	Grinder. Diorite. Great toe of left foot of statue sawn off and used as grinder. [drawing 1:1]
16268K	(none)	(none)	(none)	[G-N] Stone pounders. Pebbles, mostly natural shape, of hard stone, of different sorts, several of them bearing marks when they have been used for hammering gold, or where gold has been hammered on them. Most have been split by the heat when the temple was burnt. Amongst them are [O-Q] 3 worked tools, pounders. [drawing]
16268G	(none)	1931,1010.118	(none)	[G-N] Stone pounders. Pebbles, mostly natural shape, of hard stone, of different sorts, several of them bearing marks when they have been used for hammering gold, or where gold has been hammered on them. Most have been split by the heat when the temple was burnt. Amongst them are [O-Q] 3 worked tools, pounders. [drawing]
16267	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Grinder. Black stone. Flat in section, the under surface polished with use. [drawing 1:1]
16144	(none)	(none)	(none)	Granite pestle(?) Truncated cone with lugs at side. [drawing]
15587	31-16-478	(none)	(none)	Stone grinder. Grey mottled steatite. [drawing]
13748	(none)	1930,1213.232	(none)	Pounder. Dark grey stone. Polished. Section at base. Not in catalog. [drawing 1:1]
13738	31-16-471	(none)	(none)	Pounder. White limestone. Not in catalog. [drawing]
13730	31-16-470	(none)	(none)	Pounding-stone or hand hammer. Pebble. A flattened sphere; on one flattened side bruises due to hammering.
13705B	(none)	1930,1213.271	(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.
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.
12746A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Pestle and [B] mortar. Stone. Grey. Pestle is sausage shaped - like a truncated cone with convex sides. [Mortar type] XVI [drawing 2:5]
11149	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pestle. Limestone. White. Shaped like a truncated cone with convex ends. [drawing]
(none)	31-17-352N	(none)	(none)	[U number Not assigned in field]
(none)	35-1-52	(none)	(none)	unknown
(none)	31-16-573A	(none)	(none)	unknown