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)
11928A.2 (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.
11928A.3 (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.
11928G (none) (none) (none) [A.1-.3] Limestone offering Table [B-F] 5 Copper Daggers & [G-H] 2 Whetstones. All type V with central rib-shape of gold dagger-blades.
11928H (none) (none) (none) [A.1-.3] Limestone Offering Table [B-F] 5 Copper Daggers & [G-H] 2 Whetstones. All type V with central rib-shape of gold dagger-blades.
11930 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis & silver double conoids (see Field Notes)
11931A (none) (none) (none) [A] Pin. Copper with lapis ball head. (with this, [B-C] 2 silver finger rings: see box U.11930)
11933 30-12-83 (none) (none) Stone Vase. White calcite. [Drawing] Type CXXVII
11935 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Lapis double conoids, carnelian bugles, carnelian rings, small lapis balls, and silver beads (decayed) See Field Notes.
11938 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers in each, men & animals.
11939 (none) 1929,1017.302 (none) Beads. Mixed sorts = see field notes
11941 30-12-699 (none) (none) Stone Pot. Dark greenish stone (steatite) [Drawing] Type LI
11942 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White Calcite. "Spill vase" [Drawing] Type CII
11943 (none) 1935,0113.758 (none) Stone Bowl. White calcite (broken) Flattened hemispherical-no base. Type LXVIII
11944 (none) (none) (none) Frontlet consisting of 1 large gold and 2 lapis facetted lentoid beads and 4 carnelian rings and 1 lapis ball (the last may have been to fasten the chains, which was of silver and have perished.)
11946 (none) (none) (none) Stone Pot. White calcite. Lower part only (broken in antiquity & mended with lead rivets.) Type ?
11948 30-12-491 (none) (none) Copper Pin. With striated lapis ball head capped with gold (the stem broken into 5 bits)
11949A (none) 1930,1213.574a (none) [A-B] 2 Stone Bowls. White limestone (one smashed) One was inverted over the other and between them was a [C] cochle shell containing light green paint Type XXIII
11949B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Stone Bowls. White limestone (one smashed) One was inverted over the other and between them was a [C] cochle shell containing light green paint Type XXIII
11949C (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Stone Bowls. White limestone (one smashed) One was inverted over the other and between them was a [C] cochle shell containing light green paint Type XXIII
11952 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Lapis. 2 registers.
11953 (none) (none) (none) Silver Pin. With lapis ball head (stem broken). [Type] V.
11954 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Pinkish marble. [drawing 1:1]
11955 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone (broken).
11957 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Translucent white quartzite(?)
11959 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. hematite (broken)

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