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)
9051	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Limestone? White Spread eagle, star above crescent moon, and on either side of the star and crescent, a reclining antelope with very high horns.
9056	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Steatite Green Broken & mended Gilgamesh and Enkidu v rampant lion and bull
9060	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Black steatite A standing bearded male accosts a seated god and a similar standing figure accosts a kneeling deity
9064	(none)	(none)	B16898	Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli Silver core Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant lion and rampant bull respectively.
9078	(none)	(none)	(none)	Miniature dove Gold Worked: with greenish blue stone tail let in
9082	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli 2 registers Above: male figure attacking rampant gazelle - behind the gazelle a rampant lion, also, figure behind the man. Beyond them a second male figure wearing a pigtail? Similarly engaged. Below: male figure holding rampant lion by the tail - a gazelle - 2 rampant lions crossed - a gazelle, all rampant. Also, a crescent moon - above a post?
9083	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Steatite Black A hero fighting - between two rampant antelopes, and 2 rampant lions. Attributes: star on a post? [drawing of star on post]
9085	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper pin Lapis ring bead head with copper cap. Broken in 3 pieces. [type] V
9088	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace Minute gold ball beads &minute carnelian barrel beads Original order: 3 gold beads to 1 carnelian.
9089	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace About 85 beads Silver & lapis lozenge shaped beads, slightly convex: 1 banded sard, lapis barrel & double conoid, & carnelian of similar type. Also, 2 carnelian bugle beads For order of stringing cf. Field Note PG 544 (18)
9092B	(none)	(none)	B17490	Copper pin [A]. Thickened head and short tang. Onto the stem is corroded a small lapis cylinder seal [B](engraved conoid with animal figures) which must have hung from the hole in the stem of the pin. [Type I]
9094A	(none)	(none)	(none)	2 Necklaces A. Minute lapis ball beads. B. Minute silver ball beads Lapis necklace on top of silver.
9100	(none)	(none)	B16878	Cylinder seal Black marble? Highly polished Course cutting Slightly concave Seated god within 2 gates of a shrine. 1 divinity knocking at each door
9109	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads Silver and lapis, thin lentoids.
9113	(none)	(none)	(none)	Vase White calcite Type LXXVI (New 86)
9114	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone Bowl Grey Steatite Type XIX
9124A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Beads 2 Long facetted conoids. One Lapis, 1- silver over a bitumen core. [drawing] [C] Also, a silver earring [drawing]
9129	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Small carnelian rings, long bugles, and lapis beads small mixed.
9140A	(none)	(none)	B17097	Whetstones. Two A:B large & heavy of grey stone. one [A] pierced at the top for suspension.
9142	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Diamond-shaped flat plate beads alternately lapis and gold plate over copper - the latter in bad condition. One string.
9143	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Small lentoids of lapis & gold (thin plate over copper), with a few carnelians: strung in sets of 6. See field notes. one strings
9144	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads very small lapis and gold balls, with them a pendant of artificial cat's eye (hematite(?) & shell) set in copper. [drawing of cat's eye]
9145	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Green stone Gilgamesh and Eabani.
9150	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Lapis Men fighting beasts.
9151	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper pin With gold and lapis ball head the stem is pierced and through the back passes a copper ring: from this hangs apparently a very slender copper chain (almost entirely destroyed): the chain runs along the pin to the point where a silver seal (U.9150) was fixed by corrosion to the stem, and it presumably supported the seal. [Type V]