Natural aggregates of one or more minerals and sometimes non-crystalline substances.

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
9721 (none) (none) B17024 Cylinder seal Haematite Black Copper caps. This seal adhered to copper pin U.9720 Two seated deities, facing on another, from the first a stream of water trickles from the out-stretched left hand; above, crescent moon; second deity holds a cup? in right hand; above him the sun; and third standing deity? faces him. Behind the first deity a standing attendant.
9733 (none) 1928,1010.244 (none) Cylinder seal Limestone? Grey. Subject Lions & gazelles crossed.
9749 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Marble Mottled- greenish blue Presentation scene before seated god; 3 standing deities and a very well defined palm tree. Attribute: crescent moon. Slightly concave. Surface cracked. Faultily perforated; hole not exactly in centre.
9750 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Dark green stone copper caps (one broken) Very finely engraved with religious scenes - god in shrine; god approaching a temple on a mountain, etc.
977 (none) (none) B14978 Stone bowl.
9793 (none) 1928,1010.435 (none) Limestone Bowl. (broken) The stone very badly decayed and all the surface perished.
9794 (none) (none) B17141 Limestone Bowl. Broken into 5 pieces. Surface decayed.
9802 (none) 1928,1010.438 (none) Bowl. White limestone.
9829 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Greyish marble Presentation scene: 3 figures before seated god. Poor condition.
9835 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl Limestone White Type LIV
9844 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Green marble Inscribed Copper cap at each end. Scene of worship: en-menOan-na/ ur-si/ niOdu/ arad-da-ni - Enmenanna. Ursi, porter, his servant. Enthroned god saluting three divinities who approach with offerings. Enthroned god wears a wide brimmed conical cap. Attribute: the sun. Before him a flat-staff ? with a flag ? on a tripod. First approaching deity has a sword? suspended from waist, the second carries 2 corn ? stalks. Third deity carries a curved notched trident ? - (a name is written alongside this deity). Behind the throne a gazelle, and above it is a 3 column inscription.
9851 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Mottled marble Imperfectly bored- hole not in centre. Three standing deities saluting a seated deity. Seated deity holds a spear-like weapon in his uplifted right hand. All three approaching deities have a spear, standing upright in ground in front of them, point upwards. Behind throne a flower rising out of a pot. NB. The fact that spears are indicated standing upright in the ground is interesting in connection with material evidence from the graves several of which have an upright spear on one side of the body.
9858 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Grey limestone. Scene of worship within the gates of a shrine. Seated god with an attendant carrying a bucket behind him. The seated god greets a standing figure. The scene occurs behind gates consisting of two posts stuck into the ground connected by loop-shaped attachments.
9878 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Blue and white marble, speckled Palm, 2 rampant lions crossed and a rampant gazelle.
9893 (none) 1928,1010.248 (none) Cylinder Seal Black steatite 3 animals and a man fighting
9908 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Fighting animals(?) rough and worn example.
9914 (none) (none) (none) Offering-table White limestone Only the stem, and that broken and imperfect [drawing]
9923 (none) 1928,1010.250 (none) Cylinder Seal Black steatite Men fighting bulls and lions
996A (none) 1923,1110.51, 1923,1110.52, 1923,1110.53 (none) Stone bowl. grey steatite. Broken. Hemispherical with projecting spout square in section and pierced by a hole below the rim. Rim decorated with diagonal stripes, round sides, below rim, a band of compass-drawn incised circles.
9976 (none) (none) B16858 Seal White marble Oval: rounded top, flat base on which figures of animals roughly done with a drill [drawing] 1:1
not assigned (none) (none) B16981 No catalog card exists for this object. It and two other hematite weights are, however, mentioned on the card for U.7073 as having been found together in grave DP.12.

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