This group of rocks are formed by the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.

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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)
7680 (none) (none) B16893 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Obliterated. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated presiding deity.
7825 (none) (none) (none) Inscribed duck weight Diorite. A crescent. of Dungi; weight 5 mana. B Type VI. HC.37.
7830 (none) (none) (none) Socket. Diorite. UrNammu = 2749 etc.
7920 (none) (none) B16900 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Scene of worship before Nannar. Enthronoed Nannar wearing horned headdress extends right hand to greet 2 standing gods also wearing horned headdress and with left arm upraised. Attributes: crescent moon and spear? with a shaped top.
7939 (none) 1928,1009.521 (none) Stone vase. Diorite. Blue. Stone type LIX.
7989 (none) (none) B16864 Cylinder seal. Black steatite with silver caps. Subject Gilgamesh and Eabana fighting bulls. (N.B.) part of the linen thread was preserved in the hole)
8025 (none) (none) (none) Stone rubber. Black diorite. [drawing 1:1]
805 (none) (none) (none) Diorite statue. Of Entemena. Found in burnt layer on Nabonidus pavement before the inner doorway of the Ziggurat gate in the SW temenos wall. Headless. Long inscription on rt. upper arm and across back of shoulders. Wears usual fleece skirt: hands clasped below breasts.
8052 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Greenish stone (basic diorite?). Anciently broken & rivetted. Found in fragments. Type _.
806 (none) 1923,1110.2 (none) Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of NABONIDUS. The fragments of the iron shoe of the door-post are still fixed in the stone.
808 (none) (none) B15325 Basalt duck weight. Broken below the breast and badly cracked by fire. Inscribed on wing 30 true minas. Type VI
810 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. of greenish-grey loose-grained stone resembling lava. Flat base, straight sides. Type JN23 new.
811 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. of greenish-grey loose-grained stone resembling lava. Sides slightly curved, base flat.
812 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Straight sides, flat base.
813 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. of fine-grained date-colored stone, sides slightly curved, base flat.
814 (none) (none) B14980 Stone bowl. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Sides slightly curved, base flat.
815 (none) (none) (none) Stone bown. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Straight sides curve in strongly to base marked by a slight disk. Rim chipped.
816 (none) 1923,1110.66 (none) Stone bowl. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Almost straight sides, flat base. Broken but complete.
817 (none) (none) B14981 Stone bowl. of greenish loose-grained stone like lava. Broken in half and some fragments missing. Sides practically straight, base flat.
838 (none) 1923,1110.1 (none) Basalt hinge-stone. In bad condition. Inscribed with the name of GIMILSIN.
8466D (none) 1928,1009.455 (none) [A-E] 5 weights, [A-D] 4 hematite, [E] 1 silver lentoid. hematite - 1 lentoid, 1 conoid, 1 ovoid, 1 roughly cylindrical, slightly bigger at base than at top. weights: Types I, II, III, IV.
8476 (none) (none) B16887 Cylinder seal Steatite Black Inscribed but illegible. Two heroes attacking a rampant lion. One grasps him by the tail, the other attacks from the front.
874 (none) 1923,1110.39 (none) Fragment of Diorite vessel. Ends of 4 lines of a longer inscription. Unintelligible.
8993 (none) (none) B16875 Cylinder seal Dark greenish steatite. Very large with fine engraved scene: 3 human figures and 2 man-headed bulls crossed.
900 (none) (none) (none) Basalt door-socket. In very bad condition. With inscription of KURIGALZU. Reads "To Nannar, his king, Kurigalzu, who is the servant of the sun-god..." (1) Nannar (2) logal-a-ni-ir. (3)(a) Ku-ri-gal-zu. (4) lu arad Babbar-ra??

Related Terms

Metamorphic - Sedimentary

Child Terms

Basalt - Diorite - Obsidian - Gabbro - Granite