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)
11889 30-12-7 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell (in poor condition) A man, a lion, a bull & a gazelle fighting.
1189 (none) (none) (none) Black steatite cylinder seal with rather careless design of the "introduction" scene, the god facing right, with crescent before him.
11891A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Two Counters. For a game. Squares of greenish grey stone with five white-filled dots on each.
11891B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Two Counters. For a game. Squares of greenish grey stone with five white-filled dots on each.
11892 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Very slender bugles, 3 of lapis, 3 of gold, & a pear-shaped rock crystal pendant.
11894 30-12-610 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian lentoids & lapis beads of various sorts, carnelian rings & jasper bugles. For order see Field Notes.
11895 30-12-15 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 ibex walking.
11896 30-12-31 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Pale green calcite. (1 side decayed) human-headed bulls & heroes fighting.
11897 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers: in each, men & various animals fighting.
11898 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase. White limestone. [Drawing] Much warped; The rim diam. is 011 one way and only 009 the other. Type 78
11899 30-12-21 (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. Geometrical design.
1190 (none) (none) (none) Portion of a large black diorite duck-weight, originally of 30 minas. Much broken, both on the head and across the middle. On one side of the neck, a crescent moon in low relief, on other side, part of an inscription dedicating the object for the life of a king of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur: the name is now missing. R.1. No. 84.
11900.1 (none) 1929,1017.261 (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Small carnelian lentoids and lapis balls.
11900.2 (none) 1929,1017.262 (none) [.1-.2] Beads. Small carnelian lentoids and lapis balls.
11901 (none) 1929,1017.689 (none) Stone Vase. Limestone, white. [Drawing]
11903 (none) 1929,1017.6 (none) Gold Pin. With lapis head capped with gold Type VI, B.
11907 30-12-755 (none) (none) Wreath of gold leaves & beads of lapis and [crossed out] carnelian.
11908 30-12-759 (none) (none) Wreath. Gold ring pendants on a string of lapis and [crossed out] carnelian beads. [Drawing of ring and attachment]
1191 (none) 1924,0920.22 (none) Large black diorite gate-socket, dedicated in the cult-temple of GIMIL-SIN, king of Ur (3rd Dynasty), by a certain Lugal-magu-rri, patesi of Ur. The inscription of 16 lines is engraved on the upper surface partly surrounding the socket hole.
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.
11911 (none) 1929,1017.248 (none) Beads. Gold balls (hollow) and balls of light yellow carnelian.
11914 30-12-564 (none) (none) Frontlet gold chain, 2 large lapis facetted lentoids, & 1 gold ditto. (one gold chain was not found)
11926 (none) (none) (none) Limestone Bowl. (chipped, and the surface badly decayed).
11927 (none) 1929,1017.682 (none) Stone White calcite. Spouted pot [Drawing] [Annotated] Type CXXV
11928A.1 (none) (none) (none) [A.1-.3] Limestone Offering Dish [B-F] 5 Copper Daggers & [G-H] 2 Whetstones. All type V with central rib-shape of gold dagger-blades.

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