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)
10977A 83-7-1.5 (none) B17287 Beads. Large bugles of agate with lapis balls between.
18440 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large carnelian rings and 2 shell curved tubes.
19851 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large carnelian rings.
19854 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large carnelian rings.
19856 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large carnelian rings.
19857 35-1-83 (none) (none) Beads. Large carnelian rings.
11910 30-12-562 (none) (none) Beads. Large double conoids of electrum and carnelian and flat lentoids of carnelian and gold: all from one string on the chest of the central figure in the domed chamber.
12278 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large facetted lentoids; 2 lapis, 1 silver. Originally attached to silver chains & forming a frontlet on the forehead.
8376B (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large lapis and carnelian. Forming a separate string. See field notes item 8.
12455 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large lapis bugles and smaller bugles. Found scattered over the SE end of the floor of the chamber.
10951 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large lapis lentoids. They seemed to form a string round the upper part of the head, to keep in place the gold flower ornament.
8687 (none) (none) B16961 Beads. Large lentoids. 2 lapis, 1 gold, 1 carnelian, and a broken carnelian lentoid: with these small carnelian rings strung between the large.
19867 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large oval flat shells, small cylinders, one red stone (steatite?) and one hematite ring, one calcite rhomboid.
8552 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large shell rings.
18439 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large shell tubular bead, date-shaped calcite head flattened on one end, carnelian rings and very small small rings and a few large ditto and one large ring of black stone.
8572 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large. 3 carnelian and 8 lapis and 1 gold.
17031 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Larger beads formed a necklace, smaller a bracelet carnelian discoids, rings, balls. Glass paste balls. Miniature glass paste puzuzu heads. 1 silver ball bead. [additional notes on back of card]
11153 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lentoids of lapis and gold with 3 small lapis double conoids between each.
8657 (none) 1928,1009.79 (none) Beads. Lentoids, 1 gold, 2 carnelian, 2 lapis and 10 small lapis balls, strung as a bracelet with 2 small beads between each pair of larger ones.
18141 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Light brownish chalcedony. Double conoids, balls, date-shaped and cylindrical. Third Dynasty?
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.
11743A 30-12-449 (none) (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743B (none) 1929,1017.265 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743C (none) 1929,1017.266 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743D (none) 1929,1017.267 (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).

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