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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6612 | (none) | (none) | B16665 | Alabaster stela. Fragment: broken but complete. Lunar disk. Religious? Scene. Three figures only remain in relief on the left - shaven male figure, right arm extended, upper arm only remains. Lower part of body fragmentary. Figure is apparently in profile. Middle figure head lost: left arm mutilated and lower portion of dress lost: arms and apparently head in profile but body full face. Figure is clothed in flounced kaunakas skirt, 6 tiers of flounces showing. Dress covered upper arm but left forearm exposed. Left hand rests on chest, right arm held upright and hand lost. Behind, a clean shaven bald-headed male figure, 3/4 face, left arm held below breast; right arm bent at elbow and held upright carrying an object which may be a torch. Left hand holds a sword which runs diagonally across left side. Figure is apparently draped in a thin waist cloth, mutilated below waist. Typical Sumerian head. At back fragment of an inscription. | |
 | 6842 | (none) | 1927,0527.183 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. White. 2 rampant lions - one side re-cut. E. |
| 7503 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White calcite. Minor deity greeting major deity? Inscribed: Isib ^dNin-Subur (=Priest of Ninsubur, or nom. prop.) SAL-Ku-a [crossed out] Nin-a ba-ku(?)-ma(?)-ti |
| 7635 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Calcite. White. Type XXXIX = RC.89. |
| 7637 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Type LI. |
| 7638 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Calcite. White. Type LII stone |
| 7645 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Calcite. White. Blackened by fire. Type III. |
| 7647 | (none) | 1928,1009.517 | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Blackened by fire. Type X stone. |
| 7648 | (none) | (none) | B17156 | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Blackened by fire. Half of rim missing. Type LIII. | |
| 7649 | (none) | 1928,1009.500 | (none) | Stone vase. Calcite. Yellowish and veined. Type XXXIX. |
| 7654 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Calcite. White, yellowish veins. Broken and rivetted in antiquity. Part of rim missing. Type LVI. |
| 7655 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. Semi-translucent. Greenish. Broken but complete. Type XXIV stone. |
| 7807 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Alabaster vase fragment Rimus: ded. to Sin (from booty of Elam?) Lines 1-9 of an inscription identical with that of vase C, SAK p. 162 except line 2 which is ^dEN-ZU: NB.2 or 3 signs scratched on the base. HC 76 |
| 7840 | (none) | 1928,1009.421 | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. Inscribed A-gir-gal. Type 39 new. HC.43 [drawing] |
| 7917 | (none) | (none) | B16905 | Flat seal. Hemispherical. Calcite. Greyish. Animal? design. | |
| 7937 | (none) | 1928,1009.510 | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Veined. Broken and mended. Part of rim missing. Type LVIII. |
| 7938 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Calcite. White. Portion of rim missing. Stone type LVII. |
| 7943 | (none) | (none) | B17173 | Bowl. Limestone. White. Type LX stone | |
| 7996 | (none) | (none) | B17164 | Stone pot. Coarse white calcite or limestone. Containing a black pigment. Type IX. | |
| 7997 | (none) | (none) | B17137 | Stone pot. White calcite. Open straight-sided bowl containing yellow pigment. [drawing] Type XIII. | |
| 7998 | (none) | 1928,1009.423 | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. Small vertical-sided bowl; covered with a cockle-shell containing green pigment. Type VI. |
| 7999 | (none) | 1928,1009.427 | (none) | Stone vase. Hemispherical bowl. White calcite(?) blackened by fire. Containing black substance, presumably a pigment. Type IX. |
| 8028 | (none) | (none) | B17117 | White calcite vase Type I |
| 8029 | (none) | (none) | B17109 | White calcite vase Type I |
| 8030 | (none) | 1928,1009.494 | (none) | White calcite vase Type LXIII |
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