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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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
16308A 31-43-109 (none) (none) 4 weights. Hematite. (A) long flattened lentoid. Type III, weight 1.82 grs. - 13 little sheqels (exactly); (B) lentoid (in 2 pieces) Type II weight 5.184 grs - 37 little sheqels (exactly); (C) lentoid, Type II weight 2.56 grs. - 18 little sheqels (Nominal weight 2.52 grs); (D) long lentoid, Type III weight 0.96 grs. - 7 little sheqels (nominal weight 0.95 grs). [E] Also fragment of ovoid weight Type I cf 16307
16308C 31-43-109 (none) (none) 4 weights. Hematite. (A) long flattened lentoid. Type III, weight 1.82 grs. - 13 little sheqels (exactly); (B) lentoid (in 2 pieces) Type II weight 5.184 grs - 37 little sheqels (exactly); (C) lentoid, Type II weight 2.56 grs. - 18 little sheqels (Nominal weight 2.52 grs); (D) long lentoid, Type III weight 0.96 grs. - 7 little sheqels (nominal weight 0.95 grs). [E] Also fragment of ovoid weight Type I cf 16307
16280A 31-43-112 (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 ?
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 ?
1555 (none) 1924,0920.51 (none) Amulet. Hematite. Recumbant cat; pierced for suspension, with holes for inlay eyes. [drawing 1:1]
16229R 31-43-106 (none) (none) Bar weight 8.576 GRS. haematite. black. [drawing] 1 sheqel (nominal weight 8.416). Type III.
9144 (none) (none) (none) Beads very small lapis and gold balls, with them a pendant of artificial cat's eye (hematite(?) & shell) set in copper. [drawing of cat's eye]
19577 (none) (none) (none) Beads 3 very long shell tubes, shell cylinders, small shells pierced, large black hematite barrels, carnelian rings.
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.
19850 35-1-79 (none) (none) Beads. 6 hematite and 1 red stone. Large ring beads.
18144A (none) (none) (none) Beads. A mixed lot. Carnelian, agate, jasper, marble hematite lapis and agate. Mixed shapes: one double tubular; date stamped, tubular, rings etc. Also, a spindle whorl of grey steatite.
18144B (none) (none) (none) Beads. A mixed lot. Carnelian, agate, jasper, marble hematite lapis and agate. Mixed shapes: one double tubular; date stamped, tubular, rings etc. Also, a spindle whorl of grey steatite.
8644 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Bugles of lapis (and hematite?). Silver beads and a few carnelian rings. For order see field notes.
17061 (none) 1931,1010.243 (none) Beads. Carnelian balls, rings. Glass paste rings. 1 large jasper (?) lentoid. 1 hematite (?) Double conoid.
19950 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings, a few lapis, shell rings, long shell ovals (flat) and large shell and hematite rings.
19973 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings, large shell tubes (decayed) and rings, hematite rings.
18522 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings. One large steatite (?) ring.
17394 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Glass paste. 14 puzuzu heads. 9 scaraboids. Some with quasi hieroglyphs and criss cross pattern. Rings, balls, disks, barrels with small globulear beads on the body, green, blue, yellow and horizontal. 1 tet pillar. 1 rock crystal scaraboid. 2 lapis lazuli double conoid, and lentoid. 1 hematite (?) scaraboid.
19867 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Large oval flat shells, small cylinders, one red stone (steatite?) and one hematite ring, one calcite rhomboid.
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.
19853 35-1-69 (none) (none) Beads. Shell cylinders and large shell and hematite barrels or rings.
19858 35-1-95 (none) (none) Beads. Very large hematite and pebble rings, shell tubes and shell ovals laterally pierced, and small natural shells.
16212 (none) (none) (none) Beads: A mixed lot of paste, carnelian, agate, jasper, cats eye, crystal, breccia, sard, hematite, lapis, copper, amethyst. Order not kept.
16764 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings; 1 hematite and 2 brown stone lentoids.
16205 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Dark steatite scaraboid, on the base a scorpion roughly drawn. Glazed scarab (glaze gone); and some glazed lentoid beads, one of pink pebble, one crystal bead & a big hematite ball bead. [drawing]