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)
11743S (none) (none) (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11743T 30-12-650 (none) (none) Beads. Long Carnelian bugles strung up with gold fluted balls. Also carnelian double conoids (see Field Notes).
11744A 30-12-629 (none) (none) Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.
11744B 30-12-640 (none) (none) Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.
11744C 30-12-642 (none) (none) Beads. A string of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.
11744D (none) 1929,1017.260 (none) Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.
11744E (none) 1929,1017.275 (none) Beads. String of minute beads, gold, lapis & carnelian, with gold spacers giving 3 rows.
11745 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. 2 heroes fighting a lion & a bull.
11751 (none) 1929,1017.348 (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell, the ends inlaid with lapis disks. Very much decayed. 2 heroes & 4 animals: man on the left strikes at a rampant bull(?) turned away from him & grappling with a lion(?) this lions body crosses that of a second lion who attacks a bull which is seized from behind by a figure half human and half bull. Between the two human figures is a double column inscription, upper register only:-Mes-kalam-dug(or sar) Lugal.
11752 (none) 1929,1017.690 (none) Stone vase. White calcite.
11753 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White calcite. Miniature.
11757 30-12-13 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Sides slightly convex. 2 registers: gazelles rough linear drawing.
11758 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White calcite.
11759 (none) 1935,0113.757 (none) Stone Bowl. White calcite. Warped & broken. same type as U. 11758. but larger Type. LXXXIII
1176 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. grey stone. [drawing 1:1]
11760 30-12-68 (none) (none) Stone Vase. White calcite.
11761 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase. White calcite.
11762 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite.
11765 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. Dark greenish grey stone.
11769 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Gold & lapis triangular beads.
11770 (none) (none) (none) Frontlet. Gold ring pendants (13) separated by carnelian rings & small lapis bugles. (see Field Notes).
11773 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers above, banquet scene; below, Imdugud.
11774 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: above, banquet; below, seated deities (?).
11775 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. With lapis ball head striated & capped with gold. Type V.B.
11777 (none) (none) (none) Copper axe. Type XIX.

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