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)
6857	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone head. Grey. Fragment. Part of hair and upper portion of face down to nose alone remains. Female head with fine wavy air and double chignon. Lose forehead, beaded line running round it just above eyebrows representing fringe of hair which protrudes below the chignon. Eyebrows carefully rendered by feathered line; prominent and strongly defined eyelids with protruding eyeballs. Carefully modelling of face and nose bottom of which is lost. B.
6859	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Introductory scene. Female being introduced to seated seated goddess. Spread eagle and goose. B.
6862	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tool. Stone. Triangular shaped and convex with flat sides and cutting edge. Cf. U.6560.
6866	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal. Black steatite. In form of rectangular block with cylindrical handle on flat side - scorpion. B
6867	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Introductory scene. Minor god with horned headdress introduces votary to seated god. About 2300 BC. B.
6870A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tool? Black steatite. Fragmentary. One handle lost. Semi-circular and slightly convex with two handles, one on either side of base turning into concave face. [drawing 1:1]
6872	(none)	(none)	B16315	Seal. Stone. Convex on one side, flat on the other. Round incisions on the flat side. Pierced. Before 3000 BC. B.
6873	(none)	(none)	(none)	Frog. White limestone. Common type. B.
6880	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl. Stone. Black? Fragment. Type XLVI. =RC.36. III pl.XCIX Type 5.
6881	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Gilgamesh and Enkidu attacking rampant lion. About 1400 BC. B.
6882	(none)	(none)	(none)	Miniature statuette. Black steatite. Grotesque nude male figure standing on round pedastal. Sagging knees, exaggerated back, and protruding belly, large flat feet: left arm bent at elbow and held close to waist. Right arm, forearm bent upward. Head resembles Puzuzu type, round flat close fitting hat. B. [drawing 1:1]
6883	(none)	(none)	(none)	Puzuzu. Head of black steatite. B. [drawing 1:1]
6887	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl. Stone. Green loose-grained stone. Basic diorite? Type ?RC.36. RC.196. ?draw. Perhaps like this [reference to drawing] [illegible] slightly flattened base. B. [drawing]
6893B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl. Stone. Black. Burnt. Broken and fragmentary. Type. Ur.
6894	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Scene of worship.
6896	(none)	(none)	B16368	Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Subject obliterated. Linear figures. B.
6899	(none)	(none)	B16307	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed. Winged dragon, rampant, accosted by god, who wears high horned headdress. Behind Gilgamesh and slave? Shaven and shorn carrying a fly whisk? Attributes: crescent moon. Inscribed. Dun-ur kiki dNannar. About 2300 BC.
6904	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Jade: transluscent. Green. Inscribed: 2 gazelles rampant and crossed attached on either side by 2 men. B.
6906	(none)	(none)	B16363	Frog bead. Black steatite. E.
6908	(none)	(none)	B16280	Carved diorite. Blue. Fragment. Part of statue of human being or possibly ram. Fine parallel wavy lines may represent pleated garment of a human being and ram's skin. But undulating surface and series of ridges make it more probably that it was part of a statue of a man or woman: possibly the hair from a large head. B.
6910	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal. Transluscent stone. Orange. Fragmentary. Hemispherical on one side, flat on the other. Scorpion. B. [drawing]
6911	(none)	(none)	(none)	Head. Diorite. Blue-grey. Fragment. Part of nose and right cheek alone remain. Careful modeling: rounded cheeks, prominent nose and lips with distinct cavities in corners, chin fragmentary but apparently perforated at back by single hole which runs down vertically.
6917	(none)	(none)	B16225	Bowl. Stone. Black. Broken and fragmentary. Type. Ur.
6918	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Carnelian. Fragmentary. Scene of worship. Goddess leading votary by the hand.
6919	(none)	(none)	(none)	Carnelian beads. Collection of 22. Some broken. E.