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)
16268P	35-1-61	(none)	(none)	[G-N] Stone pounders. Pebbles, mostly natural shape, of hard stone, of different sorts, several of them bearing marks when they have been used for hammering gold, or where gold has been hammered on them. Most have been split by the heat when the temple was burnt. Amongst them are [O-Q] 3 worked tools, pounders. [drawing]
6085	35-1-610	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Nannar, swan, minor god, votary, swan and scorpion. About BC 2400. E.
14497A	35-1-613	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Dark green Indian(?) stone. Broken but complete. Type same as 14494. Type LI.
19296	35-1-614	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Type J.N. 3
19886	35-1-627	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Diorite. JN 5A
19291	35-1-632	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Type J.N. 20.
19534	35-1-633	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White limestone. Type ... (in fragments)
19386	35-1-636	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Diorite. Type JN 12
19626	35-1-637	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Diorite. Type JN 50
19997	35-1-638	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 6a
19594	35-1-639	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Type JN 19
19727	35-1-651	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. 'alabaster'. JN 26.
19235	35-1-68	(none)	(none)	Beads. Four shell tubes (one borken); four carnelian and four crystal rings.
19853	35-1-69	(none)	(none)	Beads. Shell cylinders and large shell and hematite barrels or rings.
19075	35-1-7	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two registers: in each, a row of animals, the rows inverted.
19945	35-1-71	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian cylinders and rings, lapis ditto, 2 large chalcedony flattened ovals (one broken and ground down to half).
19127	35-1-73	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings and balls and very small glaze balls and tubes.
19861	35-1-74	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings and a few carnelian and lapis cylinders
19180	35-1-76	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis and carnelian rings; lapis tubes; lapis and carnelian truncated triangles.
18880	35-1-77	(none)	(none)	Beads. Gold double conoids, thin and poor, carnelian double conoids, rings, diamonds, and one ribbed date-shaped, and one pear-shaped with bleached pattern, [drawing] agate tubular and date-shaped, and lapis date-shaped. 49 in all. Restrung mostly in the original order.
19850	35-1-79	(none)	(none)	Beads. 6 hematite and 1 red stone. Large ring beads.
18925	35-1-8	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Very dark steatite. Hero fighting heraldically crossed lions and bulls.
19258	35-1-80	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings.
19252	35-1-81	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings.
19575.2	35-1-82	(none)	(none)	[.1-.7] Beads. Carnelian and chalcedony [drawing], carnelian tubes and balls, lapis and marble balls, shell date-shaped : a very large collection : 1 gold