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)
8685	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, button type. Design: below, a bull. Above.
8686	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. A mixed lot of lapis, carnelian, steatite, sard, etc. from a single string.
8687	(none)	(none)	B16961	Beads. Large lentoids. 2 lapis, 1 gold, 1 carnelian, and a broken carnelian lentoid: with these small carnelian rings strung between the large.
8689B	(none)	(none)	B16956	Beads. Lapis lazuli. Double conoids. Strung with the gold beads U.8689A.
8692	(none)	(none)	B16959	Whetstone. Brown stone. Circular in section: head pierced for suspension ring.
8693	(none)	(none)	B16798	Diadem. Composed of two pieces of gold (imitation chain) and 3 beads, large lentoids, 2 of lapis, 1 of gold. See field notes. The gold 'chains' are made of 4 strings of twisted 2-ply gold wire soldered together: one has come unsoldered at the end. The beads must have come in the middle of the forehead and a string must have connected the gold pieces behind the head.
8702	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace 62 lapis lazuli beads 7 silver beads corroded together in 2 lots of 4 and 3 respectively
8703	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl Calcite White Broken into many pieces but complete Stone type LXI
8707	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace 236 lapis lazuli beads - mostly ball beads 1 ribbed gold ball bead
8709	(none)	(none)	(none)	Vase Calcite White Stone type LXXVIII
8710	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl Stone Black Broken and rivetted in antiquity. Found in many pieces. Small patch missing Stone type XII variant.
8711	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl Limestone White Indented rim. Part missing. Broken in 7 pieces. Stone type XLIII
8714	(none)	(none)	B17033	Cylinder seal. Crystal. Two registers. Above: Male figure approaching from behind a lion? in front of the lion a fallen gazelle and in front of the gazelle a winged dragon. Below: A winged dragon, and second similar? and a rampant gazelle?
8715	(none)	(none)	B17031	Pendant. Rock crystal. Translucent. Rectangular in section. One side slightly covex. Blackened by fire.
8716	(none)	(none)	B17031	12 lapis lazuli beads Double conoids, ring beads, and one thus [drawing] and 1 discoid bead
8717	(none)	(none)	B17032	Bowl. Limestone. White. Stone type XII.
8719	(none)	(none)	(none)	4 carnelian beads Flattened double conoids
8723	(none)	(none)	(none)	5 beads. 1 silver lentoid. 2 facetted double conoid lapis. 1 double conoid baked clay. 1 bugle bead baked clay.
8724	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl. Bath shaped. Limestone. White. Stone type XIX.
8725	(none)	(none)	B17172	Bowl. Limestone. White. Indented rim. Stone type XCI (also oval bowl stone U.8724)
8728	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 27 lapis lazuli beads. Double conoids and barrel.
8731	(none)	(none)	B17221	Rectangular paint? box. Limestone. Grey. Resting on 4 low legs. 5 holes 0025 deep and 002 in diam bored into the receptacle. One hole in the middle and one at each corner; two horizontal ribs decorated with vertical notches rim round the sides of the box. One leg missing - part of top missing. [drawing 1:3] sketch.
8733	87-28-14	(none)	(none)	Vase. Limestone. White. Broken in 7 pieces. Part of rim missing. Broken and rivetted in antiquity and stuck together with bitumen. Rivet holes filled up with a white paste that may be burnt gypsum now called plaster of Paris. Portions of copper rivets still intact in rivet holes. Stone type XLV.
8735A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 lapis beads. Double conoid. Facetted. [Apparently unrelated notes on back, U. numbers associated with PG.286]
8738	(none)	(none)	B16849	Conical bead. Lapis lazuli. Perforated vertically and horizontally in 4 places. 3 triangles engraved upon it - in each triangle 3 lines parallel to the base. [drawing]