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)
1417	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black stone. 2 human figures slaying a lion, which leaps between them facing right.
1418	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black stone. Half. Portions of 2 human figures and an uncertain object.
1424	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone seal. Black four-sided. 2 wide and 2 narrow sides, pierced like a cylinder seal. One of wide sides has figure of a god standing on the back of an animal, the corresponding side a bird. On the narrow sides are designs. [drawing]
1437	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Light grey stone. 2 registers: upper, 3 seated figures, female, with plant in jar between 2 of them; lower register, scene with ibex(?)
1455	(none)	1924,0920.395	(none)	Fragment from the rim of a mottled black and white stone vase, with the remains of an inscription of Ennapadda, priest of Nnar, and son of Ur-Nammu, King of Ur. Cf. U.18224. Cf. Ur Texts No. 25
1471	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl of mortar. Greenish-brown veined stone.
1487	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Crystal. Four-winged deity carrying a sickle and facing him a winged bull erect; a cross between their feet. In text: see U.1359 etc.
1502	(none)	1924,0920.184	(none)	Stone plumb bob. Black stone, polished : with hole at end and 2 at side, and remains of copper wire within. P. [drawing]
1505	(none)	1924,0920.182	(none)	Weight (?) Black stone. Blunt-end cigar-shaped. Type II. [drawing 2:5]
1506	(none)	1924,0920.183	(none)	Stone weight (?) Mottled mauve-black stone. Like U.1505 (smaller) Type II.
1508	(none)	1924,0920.185	(none)	Weight (?) Black stone, with groove cut round the middle. Like U.1507, more elongated. Type III.
1509	(none)	(none)	(none)	Plumb-bob. Black stone, with hole at end and 3 at side, and remains of copper wire within. Like U.1502. In text, see U.1359
1510	(none)	(none)	(none)	Seal. Black stone. Conical; deity(?) and crescent on pole.
1521	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment from lip of small alabaster vase with trace of archaic inscription.
1522	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Dark stone. Half. With trace of an archaic inscription.
1523	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. One side much damaged. Device is in 2 registers. Introduction scene above and crude design of swans below. Inscription: ahat-i-li-lugal-usum-(gal)-la PA. For design and inscription compare U.1268 and U.1267.
1543	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mace head. White hard stone (marble?). Incised with 3 vertical bands of 3 lines each. Chipped. [drawing 1:1]
1544	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing deity (Marduk) and seated deity with altar between and tree at back.
1545	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black stone. With figures faintly distinguishable.
1546	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White stone. Human figure and lion(?)
1547	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Duck Weight. White limestone. (Weathered0 Type VI
1548	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight (?) of white stone or marble; elongated oval in shape; pierced horizontally through greatest breadth. Type II
1550	(none)	1924,0920.205	(none)	Roughly fashioned human hand, with fingers. Dark grey stone. [drawing 2:5]
1555	(none)	1924,0920.51	(none)	Amulet. Hematite. Recumbant cat; pierced for suspension, with holes for inlay eyes. [drawing 1:1]
1556	(none)	(none)	(none)	Arrow sharpener. grey stone. Irregular shape, polished on 2 sides. [drawing 1:5]