Whetstones
This category includes stones that are used for sharpening blades.
This category includes stones that are used for sharpening blades.
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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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12002 | (none) | 1929,1017.396 | (none) | Whetstone(broken) Grey stone; stick form. | |
12095 | 30-12-624 | (none) | (none) | Whetstone. Perforated top. Pierced for suspension. Normal type. [drawing] | |
12165 | (none) | 1929,1017.395 | (none) | Whetstone. Normal type. 1 end perforated for suspension & still containing a fragment of copper wire. | |
12192 | (none) | 1935,0113.381 | (none) | Whetstone. Normal type. | |
12198 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Whetstone on a copper ring. Normal type. Tip missing. | |
12202 | (none) | 1929,1017.399 | (none) | Whetstone on copper ring. Normal type. | |
12203 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Whetstone. Perforated at one end, traces of copper ring. Normal type. | |
12210 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Whetstone. On copper ring (broken) Normal type. | |
12256F | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Wreath of 16 gold beech leaves on lapis & carnelian strings. [B] (2) Frontlet of gold, lentoid shaped, rosette decoration on long gold wire ties, looped one end, the other end consists of a carnelian ring bead the wire being coiled to prevent it from falling off. Frontlet is bent double. [C] (3) Gold coil earring. 2 1/2 coils. [D] (4) Gold coil earring. 1 1/2 coils. [E-F] (5) 2 gold chains. Double twisted links giving a square section. Strung with 1 gold facetted lentoid & 2 lapis ditto.with carnelian ring beads in between. [G] (6) Whetstone. [H] (7) Silver pin with lapis ball head & gold cap, straight, circular in section. [I] (8) Beads. Large carnelian bugles and small lapis double conoids & 1 jasper bugle; flattened carnelian double conoids & flattened rectangular lapis beads one with a rib down middle. [J] (9) Copper Axe. Type XIX. [K](10) Bowl. White calcite. [Type IX] [drawing] [L](11) Stone bowl. White calcite. [M] (12) Ostrich shell badly broken. Traces of red paint. [N] (13) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli 2 registers: above, banquet scene; below, men fighting crossed animals- -lions. | |
12292 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Whetstone. Normal type; perforated, remains of copper wire. | |
12305 | 30-12-540 | (none) | (none) | Whetstone. Normal type. | |
12348 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Whetstone. [drawing] | |
12432A | 30-12-594 | (none) | (none) | Tomb groups. With bodies. [Numbered entries refer to bodies, not all bodies associated with objects.] --No. 3: [A] Whetstone. --No. 11: [B] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [C] Lapis and silver lentoid and bugle beads. --No. 13: [D] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [E] Facetted lapis bugles and some silver lentoid beads. --No. 14: [F-G] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings . [H] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 15: [I] Double conoid lapis beads. --No. 16: [J] Very small lapis ball beads. --No.17: [K] Large facetted lapis lentoids. --No. 18: [L] Lapis double conoid beads. --No. 19: [M] Lapis lentoids and some silver beads. --No. 20: [N-O] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings. [P] Lapis lentoid beads. --No. 21: [Q] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 22: [R] Silver wire spiral coil earrings. [S] Facetted lapis lentoid beads. [T] Cylinder seal, white shell, decayed (not kept) --No. 23: [U] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [V] Lapis and silver small lentoid beads and a few lapis balls. | |
12445A | (none) | 1929,1017.394 | (none) | Varia. [A-B] 2 whetstones. [C-F] 4 silver wire spiral coil earrings. | |
12445B | (none) | 1929,1017.398 | (none) | Varia. [A-B] 2 whetstones. [C-F] 4 silver wire spiral coil earrings. | |
12489B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper dagger Type II D, and [B] whetstone. Whetstone of Greenish stone. [Text reordered for clarity]. | |
13577 | (none) | 1930,1213.500 | (none) | Whetstone. Normal type found in PGs. Facetted. Perforated top. [drawing] | |
13587 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Whetstone. Facetted. Normal type. Rectangular but with rounded ends. Perforated at top for suspension. | |
13702 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Whetstone. Grey stone. Section square with bevelled edges; slightly thickened at centre; piered at one end. | |
13789 | (none) | 1930,1213.501 | (none) | Whetstone. Usual type octagonal in section, pierced for suspension. | |
14012 | (none) | 1930,1213.477 | (none) | Whetstone. Normal type. Square in section. Perforated for suspension. | |
14064 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Whetstone. Square in section; top rounded and perforated. Normal type. | |
14228 | 31-16-497 | (none) | (none) | Whetstone. Normal type. Oval in section. Perforated at top for suspension: remains of copper wire in the hole. | |
14236 | 31-17-499 | (none) | (none) | Whetstone. Square in section. Perforated at top for suspension.Normal type with rounded top. | |
14250 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Whetstone. Rhomdoidal. Perforated for suspension. [drawing 1:1] |
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