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.  

Objects: Stones and Minerals Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
10976Q 83-7-1.50 (none) B17062 Beads. String of large gold and lapis double conoids, alternating. REACCESSIONED AS 83-7-1. Pu Abis cloak.
10983 83-7-1.87 (none) B17056 Collar made of gold and lapis triangular spacers with gold (small) & lapis beads between.
16127 87-28-1 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Greenish stone. Archaic. Broken in 2 pieces.
7940 87-28-13 (none) (none) Stone vase. Calcite. White. Part of rim broken (and mended) and part missing. Stone type LVI.
8733 87-28-14 (none) (none) Vase. Limestone. White. Broken in 7 pieces. Part of rim missing. Broken and rivetted in antiquity and stuck together with bitumen. Rivet holes filled up with a white paste that may be burnt gypsum now called plaster of Paris. Portions of copper rivets still intact in rivet holes. Stone type XLV.
15115 87-28-15 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Dark green basic diorite. Smashed. Type XII. RC22c. JN50.
10968 87-28-19 (none) (none) Dark steatite Bowl. In fragments.
10969 87-28-20 (none) (none) Dark steatite Bowl. Finely polished. In fragments.
10824I 87-28-22 (none) (none) Tomb Group A. A large number of gold and lapis double conoids; order not ascertained owing to extreme confusion in soil. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. C. [C and G] Two copper pins with lapis ball heads. Second broken and decayed. Type V. D. Gold finger ring, plain gold wire on top and bottom, seven spiral gold wires between. E. [E and H] Two silver earrings; 2 1/2 coils each. F. Cockle shells containing brown, blue, and green paint. [I-K Ceramic Vessels not recorded on card, but recorded in UE II L Silver Armlet not recorded on card or in volume, but BM has recorded this object as belonging to this group.]
14003A 92-4-249A (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14003B 92-4-249B (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14003C 92-4-249C (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14003D 92-4-249D (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14003E 92-4-249E (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14003F 92-4-249F (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14003G 92-4-249G (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14003H 92-4-249H (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14003I 92-4-249I (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14003J 92-4-249J (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14003K 92-4-249K (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14003L 92-4-249L (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14003M 92-4-249M (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14003N 92-4-249N (none) (none) [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
(none) 92-4-320 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 96-9-53.1 (none) (none) (none)

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