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)
18476	(none)	1933,1013.170	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings and one tubular.
18721E	(none)	1933,1013.178	(none)	Stone hoes. 23 in all.
18721F	(none)	1933,1013.179	(none)	Stone hoes. 23 in all.
18333	(none)	1933,1013.73	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 2 columns of inscription.
18691	(none)	1933,1013.75	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Introduction scene with seated goddess and 1 standing figure and a tree: star and crescent above and 2 standing figures: there has been an inscription which is all weathered away.
18551	(none)	1933,1013.76	(none)	Cylinder seal. Pink limestone (chipped). 3 figures advancing left.
18281	(none)	1933,1013.81	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steaitte. Star and crascent on staff above altar: naked goddess standing full face: worshipper with basket facing a standing god who rests his foot on a lion (?). Poor work.
18463	(none)	1933,1013.82	(none)	Cylinder seal. Bright dark red stone (jasper?). Approved with 2 animals and a bird in procession.
18239	(none)	1933,1013.84	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Very roughly cut, and damaged: a goddess seated before a table, with standing worshipper: behind the goddess a tree.
18338	(none)	1933,1013.93	(none)	Wig of dark steatite, for a small male figure the wig is complete. The hair is parted down the middle, then confined by three broad braided tresses wound roudn the head: a fringe comes over the forehead: the back hair falls in a plaited mass over the shoulders.
18223	(none)	1933,1013.98	(none)	Macehead. Very flat type, of extremely hard and white limestone. A hole has been made, apparently intentionally between the center and one side of the rim.
18314A	(none)	1933,1013.99	(none)	Inlay. 2 fragments of, fitting together. Grey steatite. The hair of a large figure, carved in horizontal ripples with the single hairs denoted by roughly engraved wavy lines. [drawing]
18265	(none)	1933,1030.160	(none)	[A] Beads. A string of black glass paste balls, roughly made and a string of small beads, also of glass paste, green and yellow rings, ovoid and date shaped and ball, with pear-shaped pendant: and 1 carnelian and 1 mottled grey and black marble date shaped beads. [B] With them a very small copper hair ring [B] [drawing].
19519	(none)	1935,0112.1	(none)	Stone vase. Diorite. Type JN 46
20000	(none)	1935,0112.10	(none)	Stone cup. White limestone. Decorated with figures of 2 cows and a calf in relief. The animal's heads are kept to the same plane as the bodies, not standing out as much; the drawing is naturalistic but the stone is poor and the decay of the surface has damaged the effect of the carving.
19619	(none)	1935,0112.100	(none)	Stone vase. miniature. Type ? [drawing]
16332	(none)	1935,0112.110	(none)	Duck weight Soapstone(?) . Type VI.
14465A	(none)	1935,0112.130	(none)	Stone bead. Hard white pebble. Circular but cut away at either side. Not in catalog. See text p.32.
(none)	(none)	1935,0112.28	(none)	(none)
19356	(none)	1935,0112.3	(none)	Stone bowl. Pink limestone. Type JN 8
18983	(none)	1935,0112.37	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis. Two registers: above, banquet scene with two seated figures drinking through tubes; below, birds?
18972	(none)	1935,0112.38	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Seated deity and 3 standing figures.
20062	(none)	1935,0112.39	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Geometrical design.
19700	(none)	1935,0112.4	(none)	Stone vase. 'alabaster. JN 26
19196	(none)	1935,0112.40	(none)	Cylinder seal. Calcite. Broken and mended, the surface a good deal perished. Fighting animals.