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)
988	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone fragment. Portions of 3 line inscription.
996A	(none)	1923,1110.51, 1923,1110.52, 1923,1110.53	(none)	Stone bowl. grey steatite. Broken. Hemispherical with projecting spout square in section and pierced by a hole below the rim. Rim decorated with diagonal stripes, round sides, below rim, a band of compass-drawn incised circles.
996B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Bowl. Grey Steatite Broken. Hemispherical with Projecting spout square in section and pierced by a hole below the rim. Rime decorated with diagnonal stripes: Round sides, belwo rim, a band of compass-drawn incised circles.
1001	(none)	(none)	(none)	Steatite plaque. One side flat, one convex. Rectangular. Uninscribed. Sent to Baghdad. Found with U.1000
1043	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black and white marble. Large, rather coarsely engraved. Men and beasts, subjects.
1044	(none)	(none)	B15271	Button seal. White quartzite, oval top. Roughly engraved with date. [drawing]
1045	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Large with coarsely engraved scenes of animal, etc.
1046	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Figures and inscription.
1047	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Figures and inscription.
1048	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing figures.
1049	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Small: figures and inscription.
1050	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Figures.
1051	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White quartzite. Chipped. Figures.
1052	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite: presentation scene.
1053	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Greenish grey steatite. Bad condition. Figures and inscription.
1054	(none)	(none)	B15276	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Very small.
1101	(none)	(none)	B15730	Duck weight. Black granite. Rough P.
1128	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cult object. Rude flat human figure: broken. Red pebble. [drawing 1:1]
1135	(none)	(none)	(none)	Flint implement. arrowhead? [drawing 1:1]
1141	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pebble head of snake. Green pebble. Pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1146	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lapis lazuli seal. Human figurre incised. [drawing]
1159	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone cylinder seal. Blue stone. With traces of incised figures.
1160	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone game board. Flat stone with cup-like hollows (7mm deep or less) in rough patterns, on both sides. [drawing 2:5]
1161	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Pendant. Red polished stone, roughly conical, pierced for suspension (possibly an amulet?) [drawing 1:1]
1165	(none)	(none)	B15885	Black stone gate socket, with long but incomplete inscr. running round the side. Beginning and end lost, partly by the breaking off of one side of the stone, partly by flaking away the surface. 42 ll remain, recording the building of an archive-house (dub-la-mah), annexed to the court of justice, by Bur-Sin I, king of Ur. The text ends with blessings and curses upon those who should respect or destroy the king's monument. Photo 147 RI.71