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.  

Objects: Stones and Minerals Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
9954 (none) (none) (none) Beads Small lapis, carnelian and paste rings Originally strung in sets of 3
9950 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone With hole for suspension
9945 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone
9941 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone. Originally with copper ring, now disappeared.
9939 (none) 1928,1010.414 (none) Whetstone (Broken)
9936 (none) (none) B16734 Beads, etc. From a diadem. 1 large gold lentoid bead; 4 ditto. lapis; and with them fragments of a silver chain. See field notes.
9935B (none) (none) (none) (A) Silver earring with lunate ends. (B) Fragments of a silver charm: 1 - gold lentoid bead; 1 lapis ditto; 1 carnelian ring bead.
9934 (none) (none) B17093 Whetstone Dark grey, a rod octagonal in section with a (broken) copper ring for suspension
9932 (none) (none) B17583 Beads. 2 carnelian and 2 lapis bugles.
9930 (none) (none) B17589 Beads. Very small. Rings of lapis, white paste and silver.
9924 (none) (none) B17127 White calcite Vase. Type II.
9923 (none) 1928,1010.250 (none) Cylinder Seal Black steatite Men fighting bulls and lions
9921 (none) (none) (none) Beads Silver balls and lapis double conoids. (from the neck)
9920 (none) (none) B17585 Beads Lapis double conoids and a few silver balls
9919 (none) 1928,1010.356 (none) Copper Pin Bent shaft, lapis ball head Type VI
9914 (none) (none) (none) Offering-table White limestone Only the stem, and that broken and imperfect [drawing]
9908 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Fighting animals(?) rough and worn example.
9894 (none) 1928,1010.179 (none) 5 Beads Three carnelian bugles, two gold ball beads strung thus:-carnelian, gold,; gold, carn.
9893 (none) 1928,1010.248 (none) Cylinder Seal Black steatite 3 animals and a man fighting
9889 (none) (none) (none) 3 Beads Two carnelian ring beads, 1 lapis lentoid
9888 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl Calcite Translucent Type__
9882 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone Perforated top Roughly rounded in section [drawing]
988 (none) (none) (none) Stone fragment. Portions of 3 line inscription.
9878 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Blue and white marble, speckled Palm, 2 rampant lions crossed and a rampant gazelle.
9875 (none) (none) (none) 13 Carnelian ring beads. Coarsely cut, chipped circumference after the manner of the earliest beads from Al Obaid. 1 very roughly cut flattened double conoid; polished black hematite. Date: before 3500 BC

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