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)
1707	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Stone. Half broken away. With erect animal and human figure.
1709	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Hard, light, black stone. Type VI.
1710	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Weight. Black stone. Cigar-shaped with 3 strokes incised. Type II.
1714	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Duck weight. Yellow stone. Type VI.
1727	(none)	(none)	(none)	Black stone, of irregular shape, broken, probably part of a gate socket. On a smoothed surface is a 8 line inscription of Bur-Sin, king of Ur, recording his building of a ge-par for the goddess Nin-gal.
1733	(none)	(none)	B15589	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Very scratchily engraved on one side only with design of 2 men fighting a lion. P. [drawing]
1734	(none)	(none)	B15590	Cylinder seal. grey stone. Broken. Upper part only of introduction scene with crescent moon in front of god. P.
2503	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Not inscribed. greyish soapstone. Weather worn. Presentation to a seated goddess. Worshipper led by the hand. Flat crescent. Pillar-shaped altar [shown in drawing] (double). 24 x 33mm. Babylonian. About BC 2500. [drawing]
2504	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Fragment. Brown limestone. Fragment. One worshipper - one standing figure - of a god: Between them the crescent [shown in drawing] on a short support. About BC 2300
2505	(none)	(none)	(none)	Doubtful cylinder seal. greyish limestone. Unpierced fragment. A few lines of figures or signs [shown in drawing]. Period ? [drawing]
2519	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight. Basalt. Inscribed. [inscription] : igi 6 gal = 1/6. Type I
2529	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Soapstone. Slightly concave. Recut. Rough inscription added. [inscription represented here] Perhaps, sal-me zu: thy salme. A special class of votary. The scene represents an introduction to a seated goddess. About 2400 BC. Inscription more recent. [drawing]
2536	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone plumb-bob. [drawing 1:1]
2546	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone object. Black stone, spiral capital: hollow centre to shaft. [drawing]
2550	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of inlay. Lapis-Lazuli, pierced for wiring and engraved to represent flower petal (?) [drawing 1:1]
2552	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mask. Black stone, pierced top to bottom. Lower part of face missing. Shaven male. [drawing 1:1]
2555	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pot. Fragment. Blackish stone with series of incised rings. Type XLI =RC.30b
2573	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pin. White stone. Point missing. [drawing 1:1]
2590	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Granite. Type VI.
2591	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone phallus. White marine deposit pebble; roughly worked over. Sketch. [drawing]
2600	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Broken. Black stone-basalt? Two worshippers on either side of a deity. Weapon of Nergal in the field. About BC 2000. [drawing]
2631	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of small soap-stone box. Engraved with circular design. Sketch. [drawing]
2638	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pot fragment. Marble, with him in low relief, standing on brick pavement. [drawing 1:2]
2646	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. greyish stone. Type VI.
2649	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal cylinder. Fragment. Soapstone. Scene: Two standing worshippers with one hand up. Behind them in the field the emblem of Nergal: a weapon formed of two curved blades on either side of central club - lion's heads at the end of each blade. [drawing]