Calcite
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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 17834 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Figurine of seated calf. White calcite. Usual attitude, body in profile. Left hand turned over shoulder to face outwards. |
| 17835A | 32-40-308 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two lion's heads. Silhouetted in profile. White calcite, originally painted red, but the color gone: both are really stamp seals with rough designs drill-cut on the flat lower surface. Both are pierced for suspension from the top of the head to the bottom of the mane. [drawing] | |
| 17835B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Two lion's heads. Silhouetted in profile. White calcite, originally painted red, but the color gone: both are really stamp seals with rough designs drill-cut on the flat lower surface. Both are pierced for suspension from the top of the head to the bottom of the mane. [drawing] |
| 17836 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Object. Of white calcite. Shaped like a cow-bell with two rings for suspension: in the holes were traces of what seemed to be reed or fiber |
| 17837 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Toilet vase. White calcite. Two small jars joined together each contains yellow pigment. [drawing] |
| 17838 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. Miniature. Type RC 113 new. [RC.67 variant crossed out] [drawing 1:1] |
| 17841 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Figurine? Of veined reddish calcite. (broken = and the surface badly decayed). Apparently a human figure very summarily represented with drilled eye-holes. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17898 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Mixed lot, off many shapes and materials, found in or just below the floor of an early Neo-Babylonian level and presumably of that date, though some may well be old beads re-used. Shapes include ball, ring, cylinder, rhomboid, diamond, date shaped, elliptical, polygonal, double conoid, poppyseed, chisel, pear pendant, one miniature celt. Materials include carnelian, marble, steatite, sard, calcite, quartz, amethyst, agate, mother of pearl, shell, glazed frit, limestone (?), granite, hematite, crystal. |
| 17907 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 6 stalgmitic calcites, white and transluscent; lentoid. |
| 17977 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Inscribed fragment of jar. White calcite. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18115 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 1 malachite cylinder, 2 white calcite rhomboids, 1 cylinder seal, grey steatite, much defaced, with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and traces of 2 columns of inscription: cylinders of shell, steatite, pine limestone, some originally with figures but all defaced, eliptical beads of white calcite, agate, biconvex rectangles, square section tubular red limestone, black stone discoid, carnelian date-shaped, glass ball, and one limestone disk with crudely incised design thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing] |
| 18120A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. Carnelian balls and rings and tubular steatite cylinders and date-shaped. Carnelian eliptical, calcite eliptical jasper (?) biconvex square, hematite pear pendant, flattened rough pebble pendant and a few large paste beads, much decayed also. [B] 1 very small gold lunate earring. [C-D] 2 small silver earrings and [drawing] [E-F] two plain silver rings. |
| 18308 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase fragment. White calcite. Bowl, shallow with carinated rim. On the outside a panel, complete, with inscription. [drawing of cuneiform inscription] Rimush |
| 18439 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Large shell tubular bead, date-shaped calcite head flattened on one end, carnelian rings and very small small rings and a few large ditto and one large ring of black stone. |
| 18467 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Translucent calcite. [Type 9] [drawing 2:5] |
| 18489 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. White calcite. [Type] 55. Bowl. White calcite. [drawing 2:5] |
| 18506 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Banded calcite. [Type] 56. [drawing] |
| 18516 | 33-35-100 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Banded limestone. [Type] 10. [drawing] |
| 18560 | 33-35-100 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Translucent banded white calcite. [Type] 27. [drawing] | |
| 18571 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Grey transluscent calcite. Rim much chipped. [Type] 57. [drawing] |
| 18572 | 33-35-111 | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Grey transluscent calcite. Same type as U.18571, (JN.57) but without the slight plate base. Rim much chipped. JN.59. |
| 18593 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone cup. Translucent white calcite with simple lip. [Type] 64. [drawing] |
| 18672 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Transluscent white calcite. [Type] 59. [drawing] |
| 18677 | 33-35-110 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Translucent white calcite. Badly smashed and surface decayed. Much distorted. [Type] JN4. [drawing] |
| 18807 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl, fragment of. White calcite. With 10 columns of inscription damaged and incomplete. Inscription of Shul-gi (Dungi) |
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