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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 11140 | (none) | 1928,1010.470 | (none) | White Calcite Vase. Broken and mended in antiquity, with bitumen. Type LXIII see Field Note Drawing. |
| 11141 | (none) | (none) | B17116 | White calcite Vase. Type LVI. [drawing 2:5] |
| 11202 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Calcite Block. Shaped like a brick. |
| 11401 | 30-12-23 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Pinkish grey steatite. Early type. Subject: 2 figures with bird-like heads seated facing each other and drinking through tubes from a common vessel. They are seated in a boat with high stem and prow, a reed plant (?) at the end of the boat and below objects like reed bundles. | |
| 11443 | 30-12-49 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell, much decayed. Inscription apparently: Sagdudu. HC..5. | |
| 11487 | 30-12-76 | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Of white calcite. Broken & rivetted in antiquity. Broken but complete found covered with matting of which the imprint remains. Type LXXI. [drawing] | |
| 11497 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. Type LXXVI. [drawing] |
| 11510 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. [drawing] |
| 11511 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. Type 91 (new). [drawing] |
| 11519 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Spill Vase. White calcite. Type V. [drawing] |
| 11528 | 30-12-8 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell much decayed. Subject: a man & 2 lions rampant against a deer? upside down. | |
| 11529 | 30-12-75 | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Spill-vase of white calcite. LXXXVI. [drawing] | |
| 11541 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. Type LVI. [drawing] |
| 11543 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. Oval, with raised base, end ribs & double vertical lugs, an exact translation of the metal type. Poor condition. New type 96. |
| 11544 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Oval Bowl. White calcite, with ribbed ends and lug handles on a hollow pedestal (surface decayed and rim much perished). New type 99. [Type] CIX. [drawing] |
| 11547 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. Type LVI. [drawing] |
| 11548 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. Type LXXVI. [drawing] |
| 11587 | 30-12-84 | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. Type XL. [drawing] | |
| 11589 | (none) | 1929,1017.667 | (none) | Stone Bowl. White calcite. (broken but complete). Type XXV. |
| 1167 | (none) | 1924,0920.397 | (none) | Fragment from near the rim of an alabaster vase. |
| 11675 | (none) | 1929,1017.61 | (none) | Calcite Bowl. Fragment. Dedication by a King of Ur: name mostly broken: possibly Mes-ki-ag-nun of 1st. Dyn.? |
| 11676 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of Vase (calcite) part of 3 signs. |
| 11705 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Vase. White calcite pot. Cracked and badly distorted; apparently oval. Very minute but well marked base ring. |
| 11725 | 30-12-40 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. A god with one foot on a hill, & 3 worshippers. Inscription (Lug)al(?)-(?)-la(?)-ni dub-sar(=scribe). | |
| 11731 | (none) | 1929,1017.688 | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. |
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