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)
16326	(none)	1931,1010.25	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Tip missing. Presentation scene: 3 standing figures. The first has both hands raised in greeting., conical cap rising in tiers, a short pig-tail, and flounced kaukanes coat. Approaching is a male figure clothed in a short coat which only comes down to the knees, and carrying a club in his right hand. He also wears a brimmed cap. Behind him a second figure similarly clad carrying an offering in left hand and a basket(?) in the right. Each of the last 2 figures seems to have an animal skin over the short coat.
16710A	(none)	1931,1010.255	(none)	Beads: 401 in all. Jasper, quartz, lapis lazuli, carnelian, agate, cats eye, breccia, granite, amethyst, copper, and various mottled stones, reddish brown, grey, etc. 1 gold double conoid; order not know. Mostly lentoids. Also barrels, rings, double conoids, balls.
16685	(none)	1931,1010.256	(none)	Beads. Carnelian: balls and rings and double conoids. Amethyst: double conoids. Lapis lazuli: balls and rings. Agate: lentoids, barrels. Glass paste: lentoids, balls, rings.
17312	(none)	1931,1010.26	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 standing figures.
16795.2	(none)	1931,1010.260	(none)	[.1-.2] Beads: glass paste: balls, lentoids, pear-shaped beads, 1 variegated glass bugle bead-combed decoration. Also carnelian, agate and steatite; and some worked yellow glazed beads.
17021.2	(none)	1931,1010.261	(none)	[.1-.2] Beads. About 130 in all. Carnelian, lentoids, balls, rings, double conoids, discoids. Lapis lazuli double conoids, rings and discoid. Glass paste balls, and a few worked discoids.
16690	(none)	1931,1010.27	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Miniature. Spread eagle.
(none)	(none)	1931,1010.273	(none)	(none)
16364	(none)	1931,1010.277	(none)	Bronze Pin. With hooked top. Broken in 2 places. [drawing 1:1]
16002	(none)	1931,1010.3	(none)	Stone stela. Fragment of lower part of black shale stela, with rough and for insertion in stand, and bas of raised frame, containing an inscription of 1 column, 10 lines. All sculpture missing. Naram-Sin. HC.UET 8/2 (hand Copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING: information from later typed transcription]
16551	(none)	1931,1010.30	(none)	Cylinder seal, steatite. Lugal... H.C. 30/II, 7.
17337	(none)	1931,1010.32	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. (Inscribed) Part of 2 signs remain. Half only remains. Enthroned god. Crescent moon.
16803	(none)	1931,1010.33	(none)	Steatite cylinder seal.
16123	(none)	1931,1010.34	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers. Above: presentation scene - 3 standing figures. Below: geese(?).
16600	(none)	1931,1010.35	(none)	Steatite cylinder-seal (not pierced). Warad- ^dSin dumu ha-ma-tum-za (!) (obs. The inscription is not reversed as in ordinary seals. But the second line precedes the first.).
16024	(none)	1931,1010.37	(none)	Steatite Cylinder seal. Illegible. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17311	(none)	1931,1010.37	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Fragment. Two registers. Above. Palm on a high vase, one one side seated figure saluting, on the other a standing figure saluting. Below. Geese (?)
17401	(none)	1931,1010.38	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Dark green.
16602	(none)	1931,1010.39	(none)	Cylinder seal. Greenish grey steatite.
16008	(none)	1931,1010.4	(none)	Diorite Bowl. Fragment. Dungi. Temple of Nin-gis-zida. Inscription HC..30/I,4 UET 8/2 (Hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
17324	(none)	1931,1010.40	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Theriomachy. Figures roughly cut.
16820C	(none)	1931,1010.41	(none)	[A-C] 3 steatite cylinder seals. (A) Illegible, save for first sign. (B) Adad ; (C) Awel-ilim (wrt LU.DINGIR.BA), Son of Ur-Dam-bur(?).
16664	(none)	1931,1010.42	(none)	Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Presentation scene: 2 standing figures before an enthroned god.
17018	(none)	1931,1010.44	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Miniature. 2 standing figures and between them palm rising from a high vase and crescent on a pole.
16751	(none)	1931,1010.45	(none)	Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Unpierced.