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)
8739	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl. Limestone. White. Stone type XII.
8741	(none)	(none)	(none)	Quern. Limestone. Shaped like a flattened headless duck. [drawing]
8747	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Marble. Mottled. 5 standing divinities all wearing high horned headdresses. One walks upon the mountain - left leg straight, right leg slightly bent at knee as in an attitude of climbing - in his right hand he holds a plume? Oblique lines on either side touching the shoulders and waist possibly the sun's rays? Facing him a divinity carrying an offering? in his left hand, behind a god carrying a gazelle. Beyond but facing the opposite direction a god Ea? with water flowing from eah shoulder and beyond again a god grasping a ladder, head turned towards Ea as if inviting him to ascend. Possibly this is the ladder of heaven which has already been ascended by all except these two divinities.
8748	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 30 beads. Original order. Silver and lapis alternating with an unusual[?] carnelian. Ball beads lentoids and double conoids. In the middle of the string a carnelian bugle bead and on either side of it a silver ball bead. Against one of the ball beads the cylinder seal U.8747. The cylinder seal and the long carnelian bead thus formed the centre pieces of the necklace. In the necklace a carnelian barrel bead worked with engraved white lines thus - [drawing]
8753	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Lapis and silver.
8760	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper pin. Rounded in section. Lapis? ball head with gold ring round middle. [Type] V
8764	(none)	(none)	B17161	Bowl. Steatite. Dark green. Stone type LXII.
8765	(none)	(none)	(none)	Vase. Calcite. White. Stone type LXIII.
8766	(none)	(none)	B17384	Copper pin. With ribbed lapis ball head discolored by heat. Rounded in section. Only the middle portion of the lapis ball head was showing. The upper and lower portions originally had a silver cap. Only a fragment of this remains. Pin is perforated below head. [drawing]
8770	(none)	(none)	(none)	Vase Calcite Yellowish Stone type LXXVIII
8771	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl. Limestone. Grey. Broken and fragmentary. Stone type XII.
8772	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl. Calcite. White. Indented rim. Broken and fragmentary. Stone type LX.
8773	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bowl. Limestone. White. Finger bones found inside. Stone type XCII.
8775	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 83 roughly shaped lapis ball beads. These formed a double string round the neck. Big beads and small beads evenly sized off. Each string symmetrical with the other.
8781B	(none)	(none)	(none)	3 beads. [A] 1 bugle gold. [B] 1 bugle lapis. [C] 1 double conoid lapis.
8781C	(none)	(none)	(none)	3 beads. [A] 1 bugle gold. [B] 1 bugle lapis. [C] 1 double conoid lapis.
8793	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite black. Seated god and 4 erect - gods? approaching one holds a vase with a handle to it.
8794	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. About 18 gold beads, 18 lapis - ball beads, ring beads and a few double conoids. Gold and lapis strung alternately, ball beads between the double conoids.
8799	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed but obliterated. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hand? to seated god.
8824	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase fragment. Polished limestone? 3 fragmentary lines of archaic writing dedication to ^dAn? or to Nab? H.C. 67
8904	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads Small lapis and carnelian with lapis phallic amulet. [drawing 1:1]
8908	(none)	(none)	(none)	Whetstone. Triangular: of dark stone. [drawing]
8910	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. grey stone. Much worn. Design of running gazelles.
8912	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Light greenish-grey stone, Scene: a seated god and 2 standing figures: presentation scene.
8916	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis Lazuli Scene: Gilgamesh and bull, Eabani and lion.