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)
1550 (none) 1924,0920.205 (none) Roughly fashioned human hand, with fingers. Dark grey stone. [drawing 2:5]
1558 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Cross. White chert. Perhaps originally glazed; pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
1628 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Inscribed with scene of presentation to goddess.
1636 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. With roughly engraved device of introduction ceremony, and inscription of 2 lines. Ur-dub: dumu Ur-d.Kal
1699 (none) 1924,0920.197 (none) Flint arrowhead, with serrated edge. [drawing 1:1]
2501 (none) 1927,1003.8 (none) Inscribed tablet. Brown limestone. Fragment. Incomplete Semitic text. Obverse: 7 lines. Reverse: weather worn. Ink-drawing. Neo-Babylonian.
2503 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Not inscribed. greyish soapstone. Weather worn. Presentation to a seated goddess. Worshipper led by the hand. Flat crescent. Pillar-shaped altar [shown in drawing] (double). 24 x 33mm. Babylonian. About BC 2500. [drawing]
2504 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Fragment. Brown limestone. Fragment. One worshipper - one standing figure - of a god: Between them the crescent [shown in drawing] on a short support. About BC 2300
2505 (none) (none) (none) Doubtful cylinder seal. greyish limestone. Unpierced fragment. A few lines of figures or signs [shown in drawing]. Period ? [drawing]
2508 (none) 1927,1003.64 (none) Spindle whorl. Black steatite. [drawing 1:1]
2519 (none) (none) (none) Weight. Basalt. Inscribed. [inscription] : igi 6 gal = 1/6. Type I
2529 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Soapstone. Slightly concave. Recut. Rough inscription added. [inscription represented here] Perhaps, sal-me zu: thy salme. A special class of votary. The scene represents an introduction to a seated goddess. About 2400 BC. Inscription more recent. [drawing]
2532 (none) 1927,1003.62 (none) Duck weight. Black stone. Type VI [drawing 1:1]
2535 (none) 1927,1003.262 (none) Obsidian nail. [drawing 1:1]
2590 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Granite. Type VI.
2600 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Broken. Black stone-basalt? Two worshippers on either side of a deity. Weapon of Nergal in the field. About BC 2000. [drawing]
2631 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of small soap-stone box. Engraved with circular design. Sketch. [drawing]
2649 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Fragment. Soapstone. Scene: Two standing worshippers with one hand up. Behind them in the field the emblem of Nergal: a weapon formed of two curved blades on either side of central club - lion's heads at the end of each blade. [drawing]
2661 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. grey limestone. Rampant lion attacked by two figures of Gilgamesh. About BC 2600-2300. [drawing]
2666 (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowhead. Finely chipped. [drawing 1:1]
2670 (none) (none) (none) Carved relief. Limestone, with figures of Ea and attendant gods. 3rd Dynasty period.
2672 (none) 1927,1003.264 (none) Obsidian arrowhead (?) Roughly chipped. [drawing 1:1]
2684 (none) (none) (none) Seal cylinder. Weather worn. Soapstone. [drawing]
2694 (none) (none) (none) Statue fragment. Diorite, from lower part of figure, showing fringe of robe. Sketch [drawing 1:2]
2726 (none) 1927,1003.195 (none) Seal cylinder. Soapstone. About BC2100 [drawing]

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Igneous - Metamorphic - Sedimentary