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)
17880	(none)	1932,1008.185	(none)	Figurine. Of an animal, calf or dog (?) of soft white lime or frit. [drawing 1:1]
17803B	(none)	1932,1008.22	(none)	Group. From One burial. (A) One gold earring, small hollow lunate type. (B) Beads, two strings, one of very small carnelian balls alternating with very small fluted gold balls and gold double conoids. A second string of lapis lazuli and mother of pearl or shell flat lozenge-shaped beads pierced through the middle of the flat sides.
(none)	(none)	1932,1008.29	(none)	(none)
17832	(none)	1932,1008.32	(none)	Statuette of seated bull. White calcite. With square hole through the back to take an upright - The muzzle damaged by decay.
17862	(none)	1932,1008.37	(none)	Fragment of bas-relief or statuette in the round of black steatite. The legs (bare) only survive, against a background of a cloak. The cloak has a beaded hem on the front of a tasselled fold behind. The work is very fine. It has been broken in antiquity and the fracture at the feet is worn smooth: the top fracture is sharp.
17973	(none)	1932,1008.39	(none)	Miniature celt. Obsidian. [drawing 1:1]
17972B	(none)	1932,1008.40	(none)	[A-B] 2 palettes. Steatite. [drawing 1:1]
17785A	(none)	1932,1008.41	(none)	[A-D] Weights. Heamitite [sic] Types II, III. [drawing]
17785C	(none)	1932,1008.45	(none)	[A-D] Weights. Heamitite [sic] Types II, III. [drawing]
16429F	(none)	1932,1008.51	(none)	Weight Hematite. Long ovoid, with small hole bored at 1 end. To be weighed. Type ?
16429H	(none)	1932,1008.52	(none)	Weight. haematite(?). lentoid. red-purple. To be weighed. Type II.
16429J	(none)	1932,1008.53	(none)	Weight Fire-blackened steatite. Ovoid. Weight 7.104 grs. Type I.
16429D	(none)	1932,1008.54	(none)	Weight Haematite. Broken & repaired. thus: [drawing 1:1] To be weighed. Type XVII.
16421F	(none)	1932,1008.55	(none)	Weight Grey steatite. Ovoid with pointed ends. 3 strokes (numerals) incised on 1 side. To be weighed. Type I.
16429BB	(none)	1932,1008.55	(none)	(none)
16429G	(none)	1932,1008.56	(none)	Weight. Steatite. grey. lentoid. Weight = 9.152 grs. Type II.
16429E	(none)	1932,1008.57	(none)	Weight Diorite greenish-black chipped thus: [drawing] weight = 24.62 grs. Perhaps = 3 sheqels (nominally 25.248 grs.). Type? IV.
16429CC	(none)	1932,1008.58	(none)	(none)
16429DD	(none)	1932,1008.59	(none)	(none)
17842C	(none)	1932,1008.6	(none)	Beads. A mixed lot. 192 carnelian bugles. 56 carnelian double conoids, lentoids and barrels. 11 large carnelian double conoids and facetted lentoids. 421 carnelian rings. 81 larger carnelian rings. 41 glazed frit balls. 43 lapis lazuli, rings, bugles, ovoids, small mixed beads, apatite (?) quartzite, shell, agate and crystal.
16429AA	(none)	1932,1008.60	(none)	(none)
17943H	(none)	1932,1008.61	(none)	[One stone not listed as having material, possibly jasper or steatite] [Unclear which flints correspond with which museum numbers] Polished flints. [A-D] Diorite [E-G] Jasper [H-L] Basalt [M] Steatite [N] Quartzite [O] [Unspecified] [P-T] [Additional museum numbers: unspecified]
17943I	(none)	1932,1008.62	(none)	[One stone not listed as having material, possibly jasper or steatite] [Unclear which flints correspond with which museum numbers] Polished flints. [A-D] Diorite [E-G] Jasper [H-L] Basalt [M] Steatite [N] Quartzite [O] [Unspecified] [P-T] [Additional museum numbers: unspecified]
17943J	(none)	1932,1008.63	(none)	[One stone not listed as having material, possibly jasper or steatite] [Unclear which flints correspond with which museum numbers] Polished flints. [A-D] Diorite [E-G] Jasper [H-L] Basalt [M] Steatite [N] Quartzite [O] [Unspecified] [P-T] [Additional museum numbers: unspecified]
17943K	(none)	1932,1008.64	(none)	[One stone not listed as having material, possibly jasper or steatite] [Unclear which flints correspond with which museum numbers] Polished flints. [A-D] Diorite [E-G] Jasper [H-L] Basalt [M] Steatite [N] Quartzite [O] [Unspecified] [P-T] [Additional museum numbers: unspecified]