Stones and Minerals

Stone is the term we use for the overarching category of minerals and rocks. Stones are hard substances that come from the ground and is used in many different objects, from building to small stones in jewelry.

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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)
9318	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Vase White calcite Piece missing from rim TYPE LXI
9315	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Lapis 2 registers: Above, 2 seated and 3 standing figures, and inscription. Below, a table of offerings and 6 people bringing offerings. Very archaic style.
9311	(none)	(none)	B17181	Vase White Calcite Type III
9310	(none)	(none)	B17009	Cylinder seal White shell Nude reclining figure, one figure standing facing, and 2 men fighting (?) Short inscription: urd nisaba
9309	(none)	(none)	B17006	Beads Gold, plain and fluted balls, carnelian and lapis balls, a crescent amulet of agate capped with gold, and a long gold bead
9298	(none)	(none)	B17012	Cylinder seal Green stone Gilgamesh and Eabani
9292	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Black haematite Introduction scene with 1 - seated and 3 - standing figures. A column of inscription has been intentionally effaced
9291	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Haematite Gilgamesh & Eabani, & tree
9283	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Black steatite Men fighting bull & lion an inscription has been intentionally erased
9282	(none)	1928,1009.27	(none)	Cylinder seal Dark mottled steatite with copper caps. Introduction scene: seated god and 3 figures approaching him and carrying respectively a tall vase, a cup and box and a gazelle [three lines of undecipherable text erased]
9281	(none)	1928,1009.66	(none)	Beads Small double conoids of gold and lapis One large lapis bead with gold cap and a gold wire let into it spirally one square shell bead & one carnelian bugle.
9280	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads Very small lapis and gold balls
9279	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads Lapis and silver, with 1 carnelian. Shape [refers to drawing] [drawing]
9269	(none)	1928,1009.522	(none)	Steatite bowl Broken & portion of rim missing Type LXII
9266	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Limestone White Subject not clear. A seated god, a squatting lion, vertical posts, a god behind the bards of a gate? And a second standing god.
9265	(none)	1928,1009.59	(none)	Button seal Black shale? One side flat, the other convex On the convex side 4 sets of concentric rings Pl. 62 vol. IV L.BM. 120576
9264	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Steatite Black A pair of spread wings and feathered decoration running round the seal forming 2 hyperboles the one above the other, below the central horizontal axis of the seal.
9263	(none)	(none)	B16855	Cylinder seal Steatite Black Geometric decoration
9262	(none)	(none)	B16860	Cylinder seal Steatite Green. Slightly concave. A god standing between two portals, the left foot raised and resting upon the mountain top, the right foot rigid- as if in the attitude of ascending? His left hand is upraised and in it he holds a feather whisk?? His head is turned backward in contemplation of a minute human figure crouching in the attitude of subjection. The god's right hand is extended immediately above the head of the victim that he has crushed. Oblique to the go are three concentric wavy lines above the right shoulder - possibly representing lightening? The god wears a horned headdress. A second god also wearing a horned headdress, long hair falling below the shoulders and ending in a knot? and a skirt descending to the feet, approaches one of the portals and touches it with hands as if about to open it.
9253	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 60-70 lapis lazuli beads - double conoids.
9252	(none)	(none)	(none)	Donkey's ear? Lapis lazuli Spoon shaped with a rounded socket which must originally have been fitted to the statue of which the lapis ear was a part. Back of the ear is convex with a ridge running vertically down the middle. At the socket end of the ear in the middle, a shallow circular cavity 0004 in diameter. [drawing] 1:1
9250	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Vase Calcite White Badly broken, but virtually complete. Type?
9249	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Bowl Steatite Dark grey In many fragments - complete?? Type? Probably like type LXII.
9245	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Bowl Basic Diorite? Stone type XXI. (New 19)
9244	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads 8 lapis double conoids 3 lapis bugles 2 carnelian bugles 2 banded sard bugles 1 gold double conoid