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)
11511 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 91 (new). [drawing]
11514 (none) 1929,1017.303 (none) Beads. Lapis lentoids & double conoids with 2 ribbed gold balls & a few carnelians (rings and 1 bugle).
11515 (none) 1929,1017.375 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark grey steatite. Presentation scene.
11518 (none) 1929,1017.665 (none) Stone bowl. White limestone with slight base & 2 small horizontal lugs. Type CXVII. [drawing]
11519 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Spill Vase. White calcite. Type V. [drawing]
11520 (none) 1929,1017.308 (none) Beads. Lapis & carnelian.
11521B (none) (none) (none) Tomb Group. Consisting (A) A gold frontlet, oval decorated edge with half-punctured dots, as also round the string-holes at each end: broken & parts missing. (B) Beads: a quantity of small lapis balls & a string of gold & carnelian bugles with lapis balls (see Field Notes) (C) A string-sealing of bitumen, a flattened ovoid.
11522 (none) (none) (none) 3 Beads. Long double conoids, two lapis, one gold; probably from a frontlet though found by the throat.
11528 30-12-8 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell much decayed. Subject: a man & 2 lions rampant against a deer? upside down.
11529 30-12-75 (none) (none) Stone vase. Spill-vase of white calcite. LXXXVI. [drawing]
11530 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Shallow little pot. Type LII. [drawing]
11531 30-12-451 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelians, lapis & chrysoprases (?) see Field Notes.
11535 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Gold, silver, carnelian & lapis. 4 large carnelian & 2 silver diamonds, the rest small balls, etc. See Field Notes.
11536 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. With fluted lapis ball head set in gold. [Type] V.
11537 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. Limestone (broken & in poor condition) small flattened base. Type LXVII. [drawing]
11541 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type LVI. [drawing]
11542 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. Dark steatite having at the sides 2 slight ridges making rudimentary lugs. Type CXVII.
11543 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White calcite. Oval, with raised base, end ribs & double vertical lugs, an exact translation of the metal type. Poor condition. New type 96.
11544 (none) (none) (none) Stone Oval Bowl. White calcite, with ribbed ends and lug handles on a hollow pedestal (surface decayed and rim much perished). New type 99. [Type] CIX. [drawing]
11545 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Grey steatite. Bell-shaped bowl. Type LXII.
11546 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. Grey steatite. Bell-shaped bowl (broken but complete). Type LXVI.
11547 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type LVI. [drawing]
11548 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type LXXVI. [drawing]
11549 30-12-81 (none) (none) Soapstone, bell-shaped bowl. Type LXVI.
11552 (none) (none) (none) Gold Pin. With lapis ball head set in gold. Type I (new)

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