Hematite

Hematite can be metallic or nonmetallic, and is micaceous and foliated. It can be identified by its red streak. Its color is steel-grey to black in crystals, dull to bright red in fine grained material. It has a moh's hardness of 5-6.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
16280B	31-43-113	(none)	(none)	A set, found together, with a copper weight (?) all decayed. (A) Duck weight, hematite. weight 2.24 grs. =16 "little sheqels" (exactly) Type VI. (B) Duck weight, hematite. weight 1.152 grs.=8 little sheqels (nominal weight 1.12 grs.) Type VI (C) Pink limestone, [Drawing 1:1] In section thus, weight 3.968 grs. perh= 1/2 sheqel (4.208 grs.) Type ? (D) Shell, similar shape to last but less regular, weight 1.792 grs. (Nominal weight 1.68 grs.) Type ?
17005	31-43-139	(none)	(none)	Beads. 2 hematite lentoids. 1 agate lentoid. 1 jasper? Double conoid. 1 Quartz barrel. Glass paste ring beads. 1 fluted glass paste double conoid with raised ends.
16704	31-43-42	(none)	(none)	Fragment. Cylinder seal. hematite. Presentation scene; Standing god and 2 standing figures approaching. Crescent moon and star.
17251	31-43-43	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16709	31-43-44	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Nude female standing; god in long skirt, right foot tree and poised on a low stool, raises hand in greeting to a standing warrior who is clad in a short tunic.
17315	31-43-45	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Hematite. Black. Cut down. Three standing figures, an animal, crescent moon. Two wedge like signs.
16239B	31-43-91	(none)	(none)	Weight 1.08 GRS. Ovoid. Steatite. Red-Brown 1/2 minette? (nominal weight 1.4025 grs.). Type I
16239Z	31-43-92	(none)	(none)	Weight 0.896 GRS. lentoid, haematite, black. 6 little sheqels(?) (nominal weight 0.84 grs.) Type II.
16429K	31-43-94	(none)	(none)	Weight. bugle [crossed out] cylindrical. haematite. red-brown. Weight 0.296 grs. 2 little sheqels (nominally 0.280). Type III.
16239K	31-43-95	(none)	(none)	Weight 1.472 grs. Steatite, ovoid, brown. 1/2 minette (nominal weight 1.4025 grs.) Type I.
16229F	31-43-96	(none)	(none)	Weight 1.44 GRS. Haematite. Long ovoid. Black. 1/2 minette (nominal weight 1.4025 grs.) Type III
16239F	31-43-97	(none)	(none)	Weight 8.32 gs. haematite, Black ovoid. 1 sheqel (nominal weight 8. 416 grs.) Type I.
16239P	31-43-98	(none)	(none)	Weight 1.82 grs. haematite, dark brown. ovoid. 13 little sheqels exact weight. Type I.
16229O	31-43-99	(none)	(none)	Weight 5.575 GRS. Steatite. Ovoid. Black. 1 double minette (nominal weight 5.611 grs.) Type I
17752	32-40-127	(none)	(none)	Weight. Haematite. Square cut. Type II. [drawing 1:1] ZT. not req_d for vol. V
17980	32-40-128	(none)	(none)	Weight. Haemitite. Type II. [drawing 1:1]
17786	32-40-129	(none)	(none)	Weight. Heamitite [sic]. With inscription [drawing 1:1] type I
17791A	32-40-130	(none)	(none)	Weights [A-C]. Heamitite [sic] [drawing 1:1] Type II
17791B	32-40-131	(none)	(none)	Weights [A-C]. Heamitite [sic] [drawing 1:1] Type II
17784A	32-40-132	(none)	(none)	Weights [A-G]. Heamitite [sic]. a set of 7 date shaped haematite weights. [drawing] Types II, III
(none)	32-40-133	(none)	(none)	(none)
17791C	32-40-134	(none)	(none)	Weights [A-C]. Heamitite [sic] [drawing 1:1] Type II
17784E	32-40-135	(none)	(none)	Weights [A-G]. Heamitite [sic]. a set of 7 date shaped haematite weights. [drawing] Types II, III
17785D	32-40-136	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Weights. Heamitite [sic] Types II, III. [drawing]
17785B	32-40-137	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Weights. Heamitite [sic] Types II, III. [drawing]