Calcite is a very common and widespread mineral that comes in a variety of forms and colors. It ranges in color appearing as white, colorless, gray, red, green, blue, yellow, brown, and orange. It has a moh's hardness of 3.  

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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)
10824I 87-28-22 (none) (none) Tomb Group A. A large number of gold and lapis double conoids; order not ascertained owing to extreme confusion in soil. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head. Type V. C. [C and G] Two copper pins with lapis ball heads. Second broken and decayed. Type V. D. Gold finger ring, plain gold wire on top and bottom, seven spiral gold wires between. E. [E and H] Two silver earrings; 2 1/2 coils each. F. Cockle shells containing brown, blue, and green paint. [I-K Ceramic Vessels not recorded on card, but recorded in UE II L Silver Armlet not recorded on card or in volume, but BM has recorded this object as belonging to this group.]
7940 87-28-13 (none) (none) Stone vase. Calcite. White. Part of rim broken (and mended) and part missing. Stone type LVI.
16529B 52-30-66 (none) (none) White calcite bowl. Fragment. Sin-igis(am) H.C. 30/III,2.
19222 35-1-596 (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 64. (in fragments).
19433 35-1-583 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Veined calcite. Type 19 d (in fragments) Broken and rivetted in antiquity.
19458 35-1-556 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Type 48
19425 35-1-526 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Veined calcite. Open shallow lines[?] Type
19434 35-1-525 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Veined quartzite. Type 24
19671 35-1-522 (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type JN
19428 35-1-42 (none) (none) Kohl-pot. 'alabaster'. rectangular ram[?]-shaped on 4 short legs, rope moulding along shoulder : 2 cylinder receptacles.
19015 35-1-199 (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. In poor condition. Type 5.
19060 35-1-198 (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 62.
19538 35-1-196 (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 60b
19171 35-1-195 (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 60b.
19135 35-1-194 (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type 106.
19011 35-1-191 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Type 54.
19271 35-1-190 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Type 28.
19415 35-1-189 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. Type JN 39
19414B 35-1-189 (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type JN 27
19414A 35-1-188 (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Type JN 27
20059 35-1-186 (none) (none) Stone vase. White calcite. Miniature. JN 28
19828 35-1-179 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White calcite. JN 26
19270 35-1-178 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Type J.N. 26.
19283 35-1-175 (none) (none) Stone vase. Type 26.
18585I 33-35-128 (none) (none) [A-I] A set of weights. Weights in grains [A] (1) Diorite, pierced at one end. 413 grs. [B] (2) Hematite . 130grs. [C] (3) Hematite 64grs. [D] (4) Hematite 65grs. [E] (5) Steatite 37grs. [F] (6) Steatite 7grs. [G] (7) Steatite 10grs. [H] (8) Hematite 78grs [I] (9) Doubtful weight: white calcite shaped as a plano-convex brick 315grs.

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