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)
10978 (none) (none) (none) Beads. String of gold and lapis balls alternating. REACCESSIONED AS 83-7-1.
11729 (none) (none) (none) Beads. String of lapis lentoids with 1 carnelian, 1 copper, & 1 silver bead.
10976B (none) (none) (none) Beads. String of large gold and lapis double conoids, alternating.
10976A 83-7-1.1 (none) B17046a Beads. String of large gold and lapis double conoids, alternating. REACCESSIONED AS 83-7-1. Pu Abis cloak.
10976Q 83-7-1.50 (none) B17062 Beads. String of large gold and lapis double conoids, alternating. REACCESSIONED AS 83-7-1. Pu Abis cloak.
904 (none) 1923,1110.181 (none) Beads. String of made up from off beads collected in the course of the dig. 56 carnelian, 1 gold.
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.
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.
200 (none) (none) (none) Beads. String of mixed beads, carnelian, paste, crystal, etc. Restrung from isolated beads found on the level of the broken stone vases, but not in their vicinity: mostly towards the NW corner of the room. All deep down in the floor packing.
13040 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Two agate. 1 carnelian ring bead. 1 glazed ball bead.
12304 (none) 1929,1017.403 (none) Beads. Two large facetted lapis double conoids, 1-silver. Originally forming a frontlet.
8011B (none) (none) B16805 Beads. Very large carnelians. Double conoids and one or two bugles. These were strung in 4 parallel strings [A-D] (one set made up with a similarly shaped gold bead) apparently with lapis balls between the carenlians, but this was not quite certain. [see also U.8017]
8011C (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very large carnelians. Double conoids and one or two bugles. These were strung in 4 parallel strings [A-D] (one set made up with a similarly shaped gold bead) apparently with lapis balls between the carenlians, but this was not quite certain. [see also U.8017]
8011D (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very large carnelians. Double conoids and one or two bugles. These were strung in 4 parallel strings [A-D] (one set made up with a similarly shaped gold bead) apparently with lapis balls between the carenlians, but this was not quite certain. [see also U.8017]
8011A (none) (none) B16811 Beads. Very large carnelians. Double conoids and one or two bugles. These were strung in 4 parallel strings [A-D] (one set made up with a similarly shaped gold bead) apparently with lapis balls between the carnelians, but this was not quite certain. [see also U.8017]
19858 35-1-95 (none) (none) Beads. Very large hematite and pebble rings, shell tubes and shell ovals laterally pierced, and small natural shells.
11892 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very slender bugles, 3 of lapis, 3 of gold, & a pear-shaped rock crystal pendant.
18166A 32-40-253 (none) (none) Beads. Very small carnelians, date shaped, ring and double conoid, and one or two lapis they made a finger ring. Also 2 silver earrings thus, but broken [reference to drawing that has been excised from catalog card].
1643 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very small gold ball beads, some plain, some fluted; found all together, with a few small lapis and carnelian beads. Sixty strung together, others loose. (purchased)
12460 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very small lapis ball or or tube-section beads, a very great number found scattered in the soil a little above the bhamber floor: probably from a headdress like that of the 'standard bearer' in PG 775.
17856 32-40-239 (none) (none) Beads. Very small rings of white shell and dark steatite in bad condition.
9930 (none) (none) B17589 Beads. Very small. Rings of lapis, white paste and silver.
16217C (none) 1931,1010.226 (none) Beads: (A) small gold lunate earring. (B) Glazed frit scaraboid; (C) A few beads, carnelian, lapis glaze, mixed shapes. Persian period.

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