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)
12489B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Copper dagger Type II D, and [B] whetstone. Whetstone of Greenish stone. [Text reordered for clarity].
12491	(none)	(none)	(none)	Circular box lid of fine white steatite (?) with flat-topped central knob handle.
12492	(none)	1929,1017.670	(none)	Bowl of white limestone. The edge of the rim nicked on the outside. Type XLIII. [drawing]
125	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. [drawing 1:1]
12503	30-12-252	(none)	(none)	Diorite. Door socket. Kurigalzu. In text: Nannar courtyard. Kassite (21). HC113.
12504	(none)	(none)	(none)	Diorite gate socket. Ur Nammu. Inscription = Brick inscription SAK 186a. HC114.
12577	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Inscription only. HC 26
126	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Coarse white marble (?) With black veins, chipped. Two birds: very rough work: late. [drawing 1:1]
12600	30-12-606	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Carnelian ring beads.
12601	30-12-74	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. Spill type. Calcite. Type II.
1261	(none)	(none)	(none)	Light grey stone cylinder-seal, with "introduction" scene: the god sits facing right and has the crescent moon before him. Inscribed: -Puzur-d A(dad) amal KU(?)?
12615	(none)	1929,1017.477	(none)	Beads. Forming a bracelet. Small double conoids of twisted gold wire alternating with carnelian rings and bugles.
12617	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Slender gold tubes. Carnelian rings. A few minute blue? Glazed frit. 5 large beads consisting of 2 gold worked double conoids, 2 carnelian balls, 1 agate bugle. [drawing]
12622	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Silver and lapis diamonds, balls and small bugles. 2 large carnelian bugles. 1 greenish (chalcedony?) flat lentoid.
12629	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mould for Sirrush. Minute. Shale? Dark. Back of mould shaped like a rectangular stamp seal.
12630	(none)	(none)	(none)	Tortoise. Miniature. Steatite. Grey.
12631	(none)	1929,1017.326	(none)	[A] Beads. A motley collection including: rock crystal balls, hematite balls, shell and (Chrysoprase?) [chalcedony] bugles (broken), [B.1-.3] 2 unpierced steatite cylinders (for seals). 1 - unpierced marble cylinder (ditto) and [C] fragment of an obsidian mace head. (truncated pear shaped).
12632	(none)	1929,1017.255	(none)	Necklace. Small beads. Carnelian and gold balls.
12635C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A-B] 1) Pair of small spiral copper earrings with thickened lunate ends. [C] 2) Beads: 1 lapis bugle, 1 silver bugle, 1 silver double conoid, 1 carnelian ring bead.
12638E	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Copper pin. [B] (2) Copper pin. [C] (3) Copper pin. [D] (4) Silver earring spiral coils thickened lunate ends. [E] (5) Beads - minute. Lapis bugles, carnelian rings, lapis lentoids, white paste tristed bugles.
12639	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Slightly concave. Poor engraving. Broken and mended. Presentation scene before seated goddess, two figures approaching and an attendant behind the throne. Seated goddess wears horned and (feathered?) headdress and flounced kaukanes skirt. Before and behind her shoulders undulating lines represent lightening? Minor deity approaches salaams the seated god with right hand upraised: this deity wears a plain skirt and horned headdress. The votary introduced by the minor god wears a feathered headdress: apparently the feathers are arranged in two tiers. Behind throne an attendant deity also horned. Along lower portion of seal a band of reticulated decoration.
1264	(none)	(none)	(none)	Fragment from edge of a bowl in a black porous stone, with remains of an archaic inscription under lip.
12642	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian bugle and remains of silver bugle on a wooden core.
12646	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Lapis bugles. Carnelian rings. Silver tubular spheres. See field notes.
12647	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Gold and lapis elongated double conoids.