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)
7517	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mace head. Black marble. [drawing cut out, only label 1:1 still visible] Found with U7518 glass cylinder seal. Found with U7516 and clay written inscription.
7522	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Ishtar and attendant. Presentation of worshiper to Nannar. attendant is dwarfish nude? female with thick hair. Attributes: crescent moon, sceptre (with serpent head?) For illustration cf. field note on G. 12. 2100 BC. And pot type XIX
7523	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Marble. grey. Inscribed but faint. Two deities with hands upraised and between them armed warrior and sceptre with serpent's head. [drawing of scene]
7524	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Inscribed. PA(?) dEN-ZU PA(>)-Sin warad ^dDun-pa-sag. u^d nin-har-sag-ga. Servant of Dun-pa-sag and of Ninharsag. For illustration cf. Field note on G.4. God with high horned headdress wearing flounced kaunakes skirt carrying sword in left-hand meeting second deity wearing short tunic only down to knees. This deity has a short pigtail behind head protruding horizontally over the shoulder. He is followed by a deity also in a short tunic, wearing high boots and bearing a mace Assyrian? Attributes: 7 Pleiades and crescent moon and goose.
7529	(none)	1928,0109.15	(none)	Cylinder seal. White marble. Two heroes attacking rampant lion. One grasps lion by tail. Palm tree rising from pot? Linear figures.
7530	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight Limestone. Grey. Lentoid, flat on one sides. III marks on cylindrical portion. Type II.
7534	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight Diorite. Blue. Duck's head broken off. Type VI.
7543	(none)	1928,1009.429	(none)	Pestle. Greyish marble. Cylindrical with hemispherical top and bottom. Bottom slightly wider than top. [drawing 1:1]
7546	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight Marble. Grey. Type VI.
7547	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight Marble. Blue grey. Type VI.
7548	(none)	1928,1009.53	(none)	Cylinder seal. Marble. White. Incised lines decoration and 4 minute circles [drawing of design]
7554	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed Unpierced. Unfinished. Ur Ama(?) ^dBa-u; dumu Arad-^dNannar(? written SES.) Outline of 1 figure only.
7557	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight Marble. Black. Head removed, outline of its base remains. Type VI.
7560	(none)	(none)	(none)	Reclining bull. Mottled marble. Head missing. Bull rests on outside of hollowed cylinder and may be part of a decorative handle. [drawing 1:1]
7561	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. 4 figures, roughly carved. Marduk? and lightening. Gazelle below 2 posts.
7564A	(none)	1928,1009.95	(none)	[A-B] Two necklaces. Carnelian, frit, paste. Found loose in soil and arbitrarily re-strung. Both similar in type. Ribbed frit ring beads predominate. No mention of these beads in field notes (or in written account of site).
7566	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Sard? Two registers. Inscribed Ur-sa(g)-ga; dumu.Ur-GAR-MUG. Portion of one end missing. Below spread eagle; above dragon?
7568	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Worshipper before seated Nannar.
7572	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Carnelian, blue crystal, yellow and one lapis lazuli bead. 34 in all. Lentoids, ring beads, bugle beads and double conoids. Restrung in original order. Found with Phonecian black and blue glass bottle U7660 and with clay pot Type XXIX
7574	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone fragment of statute. Human right hand, life size. Missing above knuckles. Blue diorite. Forefingers bent and grasping the back of the second hand? Skin round nails neatly pared and rounded off. [drawing 1:3]
7581	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Rock crystal. White. 9 fish. c.-3000BC?
7586	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight Diorite. Blue grey. Bottom chipped. Type VI.
7588	(none)	(none)	(none)	14 beads. Yellow paste ring beads and one lapis ball bead.
7589	(none)	1927,0109.29	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Scene of worship. Standing god with left arm upraised, above a star? below a snake? Hero in short dress falling only to knees advances to meet major god. Behind the advancing figure a second figure carrying in the right hand a bird and in the left a fish.
7597	(none)	1928,1009.52	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed but obliterated. On left and right 2 naked attendants: between standing figure of (Nannar?) clothed in flounced kaunakes skirt and holding outstretched hand to a small naked figure. Attributes: crescent moon.