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)
500P	(none)	(none)	(none)	A quantity of beads in different varieties of stone and of different shapes, all found together and in confusion (see notes) with U.456 and other metal objects now restrung and composed into the following strins:- (1260 beads in all) - (A) 44 carnelian beads [drawing], 10 malachite beads, ball or scaraboid, and plain machite cylinder. (B) 36 beads, lentoids of banded agate, banded agate discoids, and small cat's eyes. (C) 60 carnelian [drawing], 8 banded agate lentoids, 4 large ovoids, flat, of chalcedony, amethystine quartz and agate. (D) 90 carnelian spheroids, 12 banded agate lentoids, discoids and lentoids of amethystine quartz and malachite, large, 6 in all. (E) 24 carnelian bugles or barrels, 30 carnelian [drawing], 2 ditto discoids, flat, 2 oblong agate plaques, and U.499 strung on as centerpiece. (F) 72 carnelian speroids and two double cat's eyes, strung as a double bracelet. (G) Amethyst, 24 [drawing], and 2 cylinders. (H) Carnelian: 44 lentoids, 1 bugle with separate caps, 1 bugle with acid whitened pattern and 2 pendants. (J) Carnelian: 12 scaraboids, 12 lentoids and 48 small spheroids (K) Bone pendant, jasper cone-topped ovoid, spacers of chalcedony, carnelian, sardonyx, cat's eye, jadeite, lapis and banded agate and paste, 22 in all, 6 carnelian bugles and small carnelians, in all 206. (L) 38 carnelian spheroids of [drawing], 8 lentoids of banded agate, 1 ditto cylinder, 1 sardonyx cylinder, 8 ovoids flattened of chalcedony and agate and one imitation cat's eye in chalcedony and carnelian. (M) 108 spacers of carnelian [drawing], 35 agate lentoids, 1 large ball carnelian. (N) 90 carnelian spacers [drawing] or spheroid, 15 barrel or lentoids of banded agate or sardonyx, 2 agate cone-topped flat ovoids and 1 cat's eye disk (O) 20 lentoids or barrels of banded agate, 13 ditto ball beads and 2 humped-back ditto. (P) 67 carnelian beads [drawing] and 66 lapis lazuli beads of varying types.
512	(none)	(none)	(none)	Black stone inlay. Wig of a female figure, right. [drawing 1:1]
513	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone plummet. Coarse. Limestone. [drawing 1:1]
514	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone duck weight. Black schist(?) Fragmentary. The head carved with more detail than is usual. Type VI
515	(none)	(none)	(none)	Haematite weight. [Below] Very thin and long. Inscribed III. Inscribed III Type III
517	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spindle whorl of black steatite.
(none)	(none)	1923,1110.199	(none)	(none)
522	(none)	(none)	(none)	Red ochre paint ,[below] lump of -
523	(none)	1923,1110.36	(none)	Fragment of obsidian vase. Inscribed with dedication(?)... of Ba(u).
602	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone celt of greenish pebble. [drawing 1:1]
604	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone gaming piece(?) White marble. Chipped at base. [drawing 1:1]
605	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone gaming piece(?) White marble. [drawing 1:1]
606	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Very much worn: defaced remains of 3 standing figures.
628	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. grey steatite. Very roughly engraved in scratching line work with what probably meant for human figures.
629	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Well engraved with standing figure of a suppliant l. facing a seated goddess(?) rt = the crescent moon between. Three columns of inscription. 3rd Dynasty style.
631	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone mace head(?). [insert] White pebble. Fr. of on the side a roughly engraved hollow, apparently part of a human figure out intaglio. [drawing 1:1]
648	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White steatite. 2 standing figures of a man being introduced by a god the latter with Sumerian flounced dress, then 2 columns of inscription, then (indistinct), a palm with drooping symmetrical date-clusters. Good engraving of 3rd dyn. style.
649	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Subject, adorant being introduced to a seated goddess (?) = 2 columns of inscription. Poor scratchy engraving.
652	(none)	1923,1110.35	(none)	Stone vase, fragment of. Black steatite vase. Inscribed. Probably a votive dedication for the life of Dungi. Placed in IN/No. 1.
653	(none)	(none)	(none)	Amulet(?). Fragment. (lower part missing) of a seated lion(?) carved in brown pebble. [drawing]
654	(none)	1923,1110.178	(none)	Beads. String of (inserted) 128 small carnelian rings, 38 white pebble bugles + 12 small lapis beads, strung together. [below] Found with stone bowls +posts of No.'s U.810 sq.
663B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian, with a few bugles + other shaped of paste, crystal, + lapis strung up in 2 strings. A Carnelian. B Mixed.
666	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads of carnelian, amethystine, quartz, agate, etc.
667	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal. Flattened roundel slightly domed on top, of yellowish white pebble with roughly engraved design on face. Pierced horizontally. [below] See No.'s 665,6 [drawing 1:1]
668	(none)	(none)	(none)	spindle whorl pebble.