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)
9656D (none) (none) (none) Beads Gold. Large double conoids, small double conoids, tubular beads, barrel beads, fluted ball beads, flattened double conoids, double conoids of spiral wire, circles of spiral wire, 2 elongated double conoids; 4 ring spacers for 3 strings, gold bar spacers (square in section) for 20 strings, 3 gold leaves with spacers for 2 strings. Carnelian. Barrel beads, ball beads, bugles, double conoids, ring beads, 1 worked barrel bead with white pattern, flattened tabloid with gold suspender. Lapis. Large double conoids, small double conoids, fluted ball beads, double conoid with gold suspender for 2 strings.
9999A (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver
9999B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Beads Double conoids of lapis and silver
10330A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Necklace Gold double conoids on a bitumen core Lapis lazuli double conoids. 3 strings: each string has 3 double conoid gold and 6 double conoid lapis
17938S (none) (none) (none) [A-V] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing]
17938T (none) (none) (none) [A-V] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing]
17938U (none) (none) (none) [A-V] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing]
17938V (none) (none) (none) [A-V] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing]
17938W (none) (none) (none) [A-X] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing]
17938X (none) (none) (none) [A-X] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing]
17936J 32-40-79 (none) (none) [A-K] Celts. Flint. Straight sided or tang slightly convex. [drawing 1:1]
17936K 32-40-80 (none) (none) [A-K] Celts. Flint. Straight sided or tang slightly convex. [drawing 1:1]
17936L (none) (none) (none) [A-L] Celts. Flint. Straight sided or tang slightly convex. [drawing 1:1]
6357K (none) (none) (none) [A-M] Diorite door-socket of Bur-Sin. To Nin-gal, his lady. Bur-Sin, the mighty, king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world her Gig-par-azag has built, for his life he has presented. Cf. U.3031, 6334. And a fragment of a second door-socket. 7 to B. [Baghdad] 6 to E. [Expedition]
6357L (none) (none) (none) [A-M] Diorite door-socket of Bur-Sin. To Nin-gal, his lady. Bur-Sin, the mighty, king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world her Gig-par-azag has built, for his life he has presented. Cf. U.3031, 6334. And a fragment of a second door-socket. 7 to B. [Baghdad] 6 to E. [Expedition]
6357M (none) (none) (none) [A-M] Diorite door-socket of Bur-Sin. To Nin-gal, his lady. Bur-Sin, the mighty, king of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world her Gig-par-azag has built, for his life he has presented. Cf. U.3031, 6334. And a fragment of a second door-socket. 7 to B. [Baghdad] 6 to E. [Expedition]
19053A (none) (none) (none) Beads; (A) A set of lapis triangular spacers from a small dog-collar (silver spacers decayed); (B) A long string of carnelian and lapis beads (and some silver) balls, tubes and rings.
(none) 35-1-60 (none) (none) (none)
16710B (none) (none) (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.
(none) 31-16-504 (none) (none) (none)

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