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)
14073 (none) (none) (none) Beads: a few lapis double conoids; carnelian ring beads and a pear-shaped rock crystal pendant.
16212 (none) (none) (none) Beads: A mixed lot of paste, carnelian, agate, jasper, cats eye, crystal, breccia, sard, hematite, lapis, copper, amethyst. Order not kept.
16138 (none) 1931,1010.218 (none) Beads: agate double conoids; carnelian double conoids; quartzite double concoids; carnelian ring beads.
16199 (none) 1931,1010.222 (none) Beads: Agate, lapis & frit scaraboids, one agate barrel.
16166 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Agate, steatite, jasper, glass paste, carnelian lentoids, barrels, balls, double conoid.
15403 (none) 1930,1213.95 (none) Beads: Amethysts. Faceted double conoids & 3-sided lentoids. Agate. Tubular beads and heart-shaped pendant. Carnelian ring beads & faceted balls. Onyx: barrel.
15404 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Carnelian balls & double conoids. Agate lentoids and balls. Sard(?) bead shaped like a double bun. Gold double conoid with circular ridged ends. [drawing 1:1]
16696 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian balls, rings and decagons; colored glass lentoids, rings and balls.
16774 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian balls; 1 large carnelian lentoid; 1 agate barrel; 2 flattened calcite lentoids.
16354 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian barrels, rings, lentoids. Bone? rings. Steatite rings. Shells
16698 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Carnelian bugles and flattened double conoids; steatite bugle; glass paste fluted bead; green quartzite(?) bead. [drawing]
19039 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian cylinders and one double conoid, ball and rings; paste tube and balls, silver balls, etc.
19044 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian date-shaped (4) and very small tubes and rings of paste and lapis(?)
19047 35-1-92 (none) (none) Beads: carnelian large date-shaped (broken) and rings; steatite barrel; agate tubular; small paste tubes and date-shaped; and 3 frog amulets, steatite. (22 in all).
19054 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings and truncated triangles and one diamond: lapis diamonds and balls: paste long date-shaped.
14056 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings, 1 barrel and 1 double conoid. 2 lapis double conoids.
19055 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings, cylindrical and balls and double conoids: lapis balls, ovals, and double conoids: ribbed paste: steatite frog amulet, and mother-of-pearl bird amulet [drawing 1:1]
16197 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings, one cats eye, one lapis ring
15488 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings. A few paste cylindrical lapis lazuli paste ring beads - minute, a large number.
16764 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings; 1 hematite and 2 brown stone lentoids.
16115 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings; white sard lentoid; green glaze balls; paste lentoids; amethyst double conoids; breceia triangle, agate barrels and lapis paste. (for order of stringing see Field Note).
19030 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian tubes and date-shaped; 1 lapis double conid; small carnelian rings; paste balls and some silver.
16727 (none) 1931,1010.219 (none) Beads: Carnelian, lapis lazuli, agate, quartz, lentoids, bugles, double conoids, rings and a lapis lazuli frog amulet.
16205 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Dark steatite scaraboid, on the base a scorpion roughly drawn. Glazed scarab (glaze gone); and some glazed lentoid beads, one of pink pebble, one crystal bead & a big hematite ball bead. [drawing]
15606 (none) (none) (none) Beads: dark steatite, falttened lentoid with engraved pattern (much worn). [drawing 1:1]

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