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)
11846	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. God seated on mountain, with 2 attendants, and 2 other divine figures standing.
11849	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Bowl. White limestone (broken) hemisperical with flattened base.
11850	30-12-69	(none)	(none)	Stone Vase. White calcite.
11851	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Bowl. White Calcite. Broken in antiquity & mended with lead rivets which have now given way.
11852	(none)	1929,1017.354	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Animals & men fighting.
11853	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Bowl. Grey steatite. Flattened hemispherical: round the outside, a line at the rim & below this concentric circles incised; broken & part missing. Broken in antiquity & mended with copper rivets which have been broken.
11855	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Barrels & lentoids of gold, lapis & carnelian, with flat carnelian pendant. (for order see Field Notes).
11856	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Double conoids of gold & lapis (strung in sets: see Field Notes).
11857	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Vase. Grey stone.
11858	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Vase. Grey-white limestone.
11859	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Vase. White calcite.
11860	(none)	1929,1017.675	(none)	Stone Vase. White calcite. spill vase probably the original rim was broken: the upper part has been trimmed down & a copper rim added.
11863	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White limestone not bored: roughly engraved. 2 registers: above, banquet and rampant lion; below, Im-dugud.
11868	(none)	1929,1017.372	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers of ibixes walking.
1187	(none)	(none)	(none)	Black steatite cylinder-seal with device of "introduction" to a god, who faces right with crescent over him. Inscribed: - IM-ti-dam; mar I-li-mi.
11870	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Bowl. Dark greenish steatite (broken) with low base-button.
11871	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 seated deities with attendants.
11873	(none)	(none)	(none)	3 Beads. 1 very long carnelian bugle. 1 equally long of wood & 1 (facetted) of lapis.
11875	30-12-97	(none)	(none)	Stone Bowl. White calcite. Broken & in bad condition, the surface much decayed. Straight-sided.
11878	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 2 Carnelian & 1 gold bugles & small Lapis balls, making a frontlet.
11883C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] 3 Roundels, [A-B] 2 of shell, [C] 1 of shale, [D] and an oval-topped shell button inlaid with a rosette of red & blue petals. D. 220mm [E] Broken pin of type VI, but with head missing; possibly this is all one composite pin-head, or perhaps only the roundels are such, as they would give just the effect of a lapis ball set in gold or silver. [drawing]
11883E	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] 3 Roundels, [A-B] 2 of shell, [C] 1 of shale, [D] and an oval-topped shell button inlaid with a rosette of red & blue petals. D. 220mm [E] Broken pin of type VI, but with head missing; possibly this is all one composite pin-head, or perhaps only the roundels are such, as they would give just the effect of a lapis ball set in gold or silver. [drawing]
11884	(none)	1929,1017.328	(none)	Beads. Lapis bugles & carnelian rings from a wreath of silver beech leaves. 1-kept.
11885	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Dark greenish grey steatite. 2 bulls, heraldically crossed, fighting with 2 lions which are attacked from behind by 2 men. Inscription: the monogram dutu. [drawing of symbol]
11888	(none)	1929,1017.558	(none)	Copper Pin. With ball head of lapis. Type V, A.