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)
11553	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Pin. With fluted lapis ball head. Type I (new)
11554	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Animals and rosette.
11557	(none)	(none)	(none)	(beads) Wreath. Small gold leaves & tiny lapis ball beads (see Field Notes). (NB = most of the beads are in the mixed collection from the graves: a certain number kept with the leaves show the right type to be used for re-stringing.
11558	(none)	(none)	(none)	(beads) Wreath. Small gold ring pendants hanging from 3 rows of lapis & carnelian beads (See Field Notes) (NB most of the beads are in the mixed collection: than kept with the gold rings show the types to be used in re-stringing.)
11559	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Pandants of gold, lapis & carnelian (with spacers) strung on rows of very small lapis, carnelian & gold beads (see Field Notes). (Most of the beads are in the mixed collection: those kept with the pendants show the type to be used in re-stringing).
11560	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis, gold, carnelian & shell forming a belt. (See Field Notes). NB = Most of the beads are in the mixed collection. Then put apart in a cigarette box an almost [illegible 3 word phrase] of the same belt.)
11561	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Small carnelian balls strung together (see Field Notes).
11562	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Gold, lapis, carnelian & agate; the remainder of the beads from the grave. (See Field notes).
11563	(none)	1929,1017.257	(none)	Beads. Gold, carnelian and lapis. Found loose together near PG 1068 & abut 300mm higher up.
11564A	30-12-539	(none)	(none)	Three disks of green pigment (?) with part of a fourth all stuck together.
11564B	30-12-539	(none)	(none)	Three disks of green pigment (?) with part of a fourth all stuck together.
11564C	30-12-539	(none)	(none)	Three disks of green pigment (?) with part of a fourth all stuck together.
11566	30-12-14	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers: above, 2 bulls & trees; below, 2 gazelles & trees.
11567	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White limestone. Surface rather decayed. Type LVI. [drawing]
11568	30-12-94	(none)	(none)	Stone Bowl. Bell-shaped. Dark grey steatite (broken but complete). Type LXVI.
11576A	(none)	1929,1017.40	(none)	Earring. Copper & gold. [A] A large coil of copper with lunate ends, inside which was a smaller [B] similar one of gold: this probably hung from the former. (with this are 3 largish facetted lentoid beads, 2 of lapis, one of silver, from the same grave).
11576B	(none)	1929,1017.40	(none)	Earring. Copper & gold. [A] A large coil of copper with lunate ends, inside which was a smaller [B] similar one of gold: this probably hung from the former. (with this are 3 largish facetted lentoid beads, 2 of lapis, one of silver, from the same grave).
11579	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Gold balls, very small; silver balls, silver diamonds, agate lentoids. 1 long carnelian bugle; 1 large agate two-eyed pendant.
11580	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. 2 registers. Presentation scenes.
11581	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis with gold caps. A man, animals & a palm tree.
11582	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Dark brown mottled steatite. Presentation scene.
11585	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Long bugles of gold, lapis and carnelian (one of the latter with bleached pattern) and ball heads of the same materials: for order see Field Notes.
11586	30-12-697	(none)	(none)	Alabaster Box. Square, with 4 holes square above and circular below.
11587	30-12-84	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type XL. [drawing]
11588	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. Type CXXII [drawing]