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)
209	(none)	(none)	B14938, B14938	Cone, black and white veined marble. Only the lower part preserved. Inscribed: [Annotated] Dedication to the goddess Ningal for the life of Ur-Engur by a priest of Nannar. [Annotated] Duplicate of 249 [Annotated] Copied and transliterated. Placed in P.R.
284	(none)	(none)	B14937, B14937	Broken mace head. Alabaster. Inscription. Only first line showing, reads "Naram"-(Sin?). Placed in IN/No. 1.
221	(none)	(none)	B14936	Mace. Head. Fr. of, in green crystal, jade color. Inscribed. [Annotated] Dedication by a king, name broken, who smashed the head of Warka and Ur [Annotated] Copied and trans-literated. Placed in P.R. [Annotated] UR R1 6
259	(none)	(none)	B14935, B14935	Alabaster fragment of vase. Inscribed with a text mentioning the destruction of ninni-IB [Crossed out] Erin-Ki (i.e. Susa) and the dedication of the vase from the booty. Copied and transliterated. Placed in IN/No. 1.
439	(none)	(none)	B14934	Fragment of alabaster from a vessel or mace head. Inscribed. Duplicate of U.259 [Crossed out] Refers to a looting of Susa c.f. U.259 Placed in IN/No. 1.
439A	(none)	(none)	B14934	(none)
206	(none)	(none)	B14933	Mace-head, Alabaster half of Decorated with rope moulding in relief & inscribed: [Annotated] "To Sin, Rimush king of the world, when he had overthrown Elam and Barahse dedicated this from the Elamite booty" Duplicate of an inscription found at Nippur on a vase. See SAKI p. 162 (c) Vase C. [Annotated] Phil Photo 15 [Annotated] Duplicates - 206 [Crossed out] U.236
207	(none)	(none)	B14932	Mace-head Alabaster. Complete, except that top moulding is chipped away. Inscribed: [Annotated] Rimush king of Kish.
11147.1	(none)	(none)	B 17633	Beads. Lapis bugles and carnelian rings being the remains of a headdress (the rest had been plundered).
18582	(none)	(none)	B 16723	Beads. Carnelian rings, lapis cylindrical and 2 white steatite beads.
10509	(none)	(none)	17307	Stone Vase Steatite Grey Badly broken: Mended & complete [drawing] 2:5 Type CVIII
5	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Very coarse grey steatite (?) edges badly chipped.
20	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite Greenish-grey. Seated figure of a divinity rt, before whom 5 standing figures.
21A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.
21B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.
21C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.
21D	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.
21E	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.
21F	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.
21G	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Flint saws. a-g. [drawing 1:1] [Annotation] not included in Vol. IV. Vol IV.
22A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Whetstones. (A) Dark grey slatey stone. [drawing 1:1] (B) Reddish pebble. [drawing 1:1]
22B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Whetstones. (A) Dark grey slatey stone. [drawing 1:1] (B) Reddish pebble. [drawing 1:1]
23	(none)	(none)	(none)	Milk-stone? Roughly tooth-shaped (or celt shaped) of mottled black and white granite pierced. [drawing 1:1]
28	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone plumb-bob. of fine greyish-white limestone. [drawing 1:1]
(none)	(none)	1923,1110.182	(none)	(none)