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.
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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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7939 | (none) | 1928,1009.521 | (none) | Stone vase. Diorite. Blue. Stone type LIX. |
| 7938 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Portion of rim missing. Stone type LVII. |
| 7937 | (none) | 1928,1009.510 | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Veined. Broken and mended. Part of rim missing. Type LVIII. |
| 7936 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Alabaster. Veined. Yellowish. Type? LVII. |
| 7927 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Crystal. Slightly concave. Marble? core within roughly 8mm in diameter. Inscribed. Conical copper cap on one end. Bearded hero with protruding hair locks, mounted on dragon and clutching it by the tail. The dragon faces a bull rampant, head upraised, mounted by bearded hero similar to first also holding hismount by the tail. Between a couchant gazelle. |
| 7924 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead Crystal Cylindrical with truncated conical top. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7923 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Marble. Brownish, and black. Slightly concave. Gilgamesh fighting rampant lion. Behind the lion a gazelle which follows Enkidu who fights a rampant bull. Behind the rampant bull a star over a crescent moon. c. 2700BC. |
| 7922 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Weight Lentoid. hematite. Type II. |
| 7920 | (none) | (none) | B16900 | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Scene of worship before Nannar. Enthronoed Nannar wearing horned headdress extends right hand to greet 2 standing gods also wearing horned headdress and with left arm upraised. Attributes: crescent moon and spear? with a shaped top. | |
| 7919 | (none) | 1928,1009.428 | (none) | Statue base. Limestone. Rectangular in section. Two feet of statue alone remain. Left foot slightly advanced. [drawing 1:2] |
| 7918 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead. Agate. Lentoid. |
| 7917 | (none) | (none) | B16905 | Flat seal. Hemispherical. Calcite. Greyish. Animal? design. | |
| 7916 | (none) | (none) | B16906 | Stamp flat seal. One side convex. Calcite. Greyish. Above a reclining beast, possibly a jackal? and below a second beast with big head. | |
| 7915 | (none) | 1928,1009.58 | (none) | Flat seal. Convex on one side. Hole perforated through top for attachment. Whorl design on flat side. Yellowish marble with red streaks. |
| 7910 | (none) | 1928,1009.138 | (none) | Frog amulet. Lapis lazuli. [drawing 1:1][CARD MISLABELED U.7940B][Arabic notes on back of card] [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 7909 | (none) | 1928,1009.28 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Green. Enthroned god with high horned headdress and kaunakes skirt stretching out wand to bull supporting shrine on his back. On either side of shrine, wings outspread and behind shrine a worshipper carrying a curved staff in his outstretched hands. Hair done up in a knot above shoulders. Bull is probably a symbol of strength and thus supports the shrine, the worshipper is probably represented as about to enter and the god as seated within. [drawing] |
| 790 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Subject: man fighting lion(?) : traces of 1 column inscription erased. Poor work. |
| 7899 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flat seal. Steatite. Black. 2 birds reversed and a scorpion? |
| 7898 | (none) | 1928,1010.243 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene to seated Nannar. Minor deity leads votary by the hand. Criss-cross markings. IIIrd Ur Dynasty. |
| 7897 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Steatite. Black. 2 spread eagles. Reversed and undulating toothed band running between them and round the body of the seal. |
| 7896 | (none) | (none) | B16883 | Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Hero wearing conical cap and short garment which only falls to the knees, and carrying a bird? in his left hand approaches a standing deity wearing high headdress and flounced kaunakes skirt. Behind the hero, naked Ishtar. |
| 7895 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed with the names of three divinities: ^dNI?-TUR-KU? ^dNin-dul, ^dAya. Two heavily draped divinities greeting one another, between them one line of inscription. Behind the minor deity a second line of inscription. Behind this an attendant carrying a club? Behind, a third line and a second attendant, hands clasped at waist. |
| 7894 | (none) | (none) | B16881 | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated Nannar. Nannar and minor deity wear flounced kaunakes skirt and low head dress. Votary shaven and shorn wearing long skirt fringed in front. Behind votary a rampant lion between 4 vertical lines, which may represent the doors of a shrine? Attributes: crescent moons one against the other as on the burnt bricks of Sin-Iddinam. | |
| 7893 | (none) | (none) | (none) | String of beads. Lapis lazuli. Blue. 52 in number. Small ring beads, a few double conoid and 1 large ball bead. |
| 7846 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone fragment. Steatite. Containing two archaic signs. HC.50. B. |
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