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)
8669	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 2 large carnelian, 2 ditto lapis, and some copper beads. See field notes.
8670	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Crystal, gold plated, lapis and carnelian, and one agate with gold caps. See field notes.
8673	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Dark steatite Two registers: above, swans Below, fish?? Poor rough work, approaching to the period of the IIIrd Dynasty
8678	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cockle shells. Containing green and red paint.
8680	(none)	1928,1009.153	(none)	Gold pin The shaft of gold, the head a large ribbed lapis ball capped with gold
8681	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Lapis 2 registers, above [reference to drawing] Below, [reference to drawing] One end chipped.
8682	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Small straight-sided unguent pot containing green paint(?) Type XXI. [drawing 1:1]
8683	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White calcite. Type LXXXIII.
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.
8695	(none)	1928,1009.434	(none)	Whetstone. Grey stone. Circular section: head pierced and in the hole remains of silver suspension ring.
8697	(none)	1928,1009.520	(none)	Stone bowl. Green steatite. Type LXVI.
8699	(none)	1928,1009.17	(none)	Cylinder seal. Brown mottled steatite. Winged god in a shrine and two minor gods apparently opening the shrine doors.
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
8704	(none)	1928,1009.61	(none)	Necklace Consisting of 111 lapis lazuli beads - double conoids 26 gold double conoids Apparently the gold beads were in the centre of the necklace, gold and lapis being alternated.
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?