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)
890	(none)	(none)	(none)	Alabaster bowl fragment of with remains of projecting solid handle on one side. Remains of inscription.
891	(none)	(none)	(none)	Marble bowl fragment of very roughly worked and the inside chiseled out instead of being bored or ground- perhaps unfinished.
892	(none)	1923,1110.64	(none)	Alabaster bowl, fragment of highly colored veined alabaster. About 1/3 of bowl, composed of 4 fragments, stuck together. Type RC.25.
896	(none)	(none)	(none)	Alabaster lion. Fragment of showing greater part of body and bit of mane, of a recumbent lion carved in the round: apparently from the rim of a very large bowl.
897	(none)	(none)	(none)	Alabaster fragment. From a figure of a lion (or sirus) carved in very high relief as part of the decoration of a mace head. [drawing]
898	(none)	(none)	(none)	Limestone fragment of figure of bull. Carved in the round: probably part of a vase. Only the neck and shoulder left. [drawing]
899	(none)	(none)	(none)	Alabaster bowl. Fragment of in crystaline alabaster.
900	(none)	(none)	(none)	Basalt door-socket. In very bad condition. With inscription of KURIGALZU. Reads "To Nannar, his king, Kurigalzu, who is the servant of the sun-god..." (1) Nannar (2) logal-a-ni-ir. (3)(a) Ku-ri-gal-zu. (4) lu arad Babbar-ra??
901	(none)	(none)	(none)	Basalt impost-stone. Inscription with name, etc., of BURSIN.
904	(none)	1923,1110.181	(none)	Beads. String of made up from off beads collected in the course of the dig. 56 carnelian, 1 gold.
905	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads string of made up from odd beads collected in the course of the dig. 35 in all: crystal, lapis, pebble, amethyst and carnelian.
906	(none)	1923,1110.180	(none)	Beads string of, made up from odd beads collected in the course of the dig. 30 in all carnelian and agate
907B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads, (A) string of made up from odd beads collected in the course of the dig. 48 carnelian and agate (B) 23 mixed large stone beads.
908	(none)	1923,1110.22	(none)	Broken alabaster jar. 9 line inscription containing a [ins: 8ft of] [crossed out: dedication to or for (possibly) a] a king of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur by Utti... of Ninni his beloved son.
910	(none)	1923,1110.57	(none)	Alabaster vase. Fragment.
911	(none)	(none)	(none)	Alabaster bowl. Fragment of.
912	(none)	(none)	(none)	White marble bowl. Fragment of Roughly cut, and surface a good deal decayed.
914	(none)	1923,1110.59	(none)	Stone vase. Fragment of straight-sided deep bowl of granite.
916	(none)	(none)	(none)	Limestone figurine. of a recumbent doe. [drawing 1:1]
985	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment of small stone mace head. With three line inscription giving someone's name, his father, and his official title.
988	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone fragment. Portions of 3 line inscription.
996A	(none)	1923,1110.51, 1923,1110.52, 1923,1110.53	(none)	Stone bowl. grey steatite. Broken. Hemispherical with projecting spout square in section and pierced by a hole below the rim. Rim decorated with diagonal stripes, round sides, below rim, a band of compass-drawn incised circles.
996B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Bowl. Grey Steatite Broken. Hemispherical with Projecting spout square in section and pierced by a hole below the rim. Rime decorated with diagnonal stripes: Round sides, belwo rim, a band of compass-drawn incised circles.
1001	(none)	(none)	(none)	Steatite plaque. One side flat, one convex. Rectangular. Uninscribed. Sent to Baghdad. Found with U.1000
1043	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black and white marble. Large, rather coarsely engraved. Men and beasts, subjects.