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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 15802 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Miniature animal. White calcite? |
| 19256 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian rings, black steatite rings (large), shell and black steatite tubes(large), calcite button, very small shell (or paste) rings. |
| 19181 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis and carnelian double conoids, Lapis ovals. Carnelian rings. Large cats-eye and white calcite truncated triangle. |
| 14271 | 31-17-59 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis lazuli barrels and a triangular calcite pendant. | |
| 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] |
| 17907 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 6 stalgmitic calcites, white and transluscent; lentoid. |
| 18142A | (none) | 1932,1008.134 | (none) | Beads. A collection of mixed stone beads. The majority of stalagmite calcite, plain milky calcite, black and white granite, marble, steatite, pink limestone, jasper etc. ? Third dynasty. |
| 18142B | (none) | 1932,1008.136 | (none) | Beads. A collection of mixed stone beads. The majority of stalagmite calcite, plain milky calcite, black and white granite, marble, steatite, pink limestone, jasper etc. ? Third dynasty. |
| 18142C | 32-40-260 | (none) | (none) | Beads. A collection of mixed stone beads. The majority of stalagmite calcite, plain milky calcite, black and white granite, marble, steatite, pink limestone, jasper etc. ? Third dynasty. |
| 17842C | (none) | 1932,1008.6 | (none) | Beads. A mixed lot. 192 carnelian bugles. 56 carnelian double conoids, lentoids and barrels. 11 large carnelian double conoids and facetted lentoids. 421 carnelian rings. 81 larger carnelian rings. 41 glazed frit balls. 43 lapis lazuli, rings, bugles, ovoids, small mixed beads, apatite (?) quartzite, shell, agate and crystal. |
| 18476 | (none) | 1933,1013.170 | (none) | Beads. Carnelian rings and one tubular. |
| 17408 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Glass paste. Copper. Sard. Calcite. Granite. For order see field note. |
| 12298 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis double conoids, barrels & ring beads. Carnelian double conoids, ring beads, 1 bugle. Calcite truncated flattened conoid. |
| 19867 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Large oval flat shells, small cylinders, one red stone (steatite?) and one hematite ring, one calcite rhomboid. |
| 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. |
| 12035 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Minute ring beads, lapis & frit, & 1 large calcite bead (barrel). [drawing of Calcite bead] |
| 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. |
| 19489 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. mixed; carnelian balls, rings and tubes, puzuzu heads in frit and 1 in lapis paste, an archaic white calcite convex circular seal, a celt pierced for suspension, agate disk, large, with some steatite, crystal and other beads. |
| 16774 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: carnelian balls; 1 large carnelian lentoid; 1 agate barrel; 2 flattened calcite lentoids. |
| 16703 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: Glass balls and rings; 1 yellow glass paste double conoid; carnelian balls and rings; 1 white calcite(?) ball. |
| 264 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Body and base of large white stone jar, top broken, Inscribed "Rimush, king of the world." |
| 9212 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Bath shaped Calcite White Part of rim broken & small portion missing Stone type LXXXIII. |
| 8703 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Calcite White Broken into many pieces but complete Stone type LXI |
| 8463 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Calcite White Stone type LI |
| 8455 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Calcite Greyish Broken, rivetted and stuck up with bitumen in antiquity. Found broken into 6 pieces and mended 3 rivets in antiquity Stone type XXII |
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