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)
3082	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Hematite. 1st Babylonian Dynasty. Two such worshipping figures on either side of the inscription. A-bi i-li-su son of Su-u-ma a-bu-um servant of dNin-sah. [drawing]
17959	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Hematite. 2 gazelle; 2 men holding staff between them.
17970	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Hematite. 3 standing figures and 1 kneeling; star; crescent; serpent.
17315	31-43-45	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Hematite. Black. Cut down. Three standing figures, an animal, crescent moon. Two wedge like signs.
7896	(none)	(none)	B16883	Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Hero wearing conical cap and short garment which only falls to the knees, and carrying a bird? in his left hand approaches a standing deity wearing high headdress and flounced kaunakes skirt. Behind the hero, naked Ishtar.
7524	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Inscribed. PA(?) dEN-ZU PA(>)-Sin warad ^dDun-pa-sag. u^d nin-har-sag-ga. Servant of Dun-pa-sag and of Ninharsag. For illustration cf. Field note on G.4. God with high horned headdress wearing flounced kaunakes skirt carrying sword in left-hand meeting second deity wearing short tunic only down to knees. This deity has a short pigtail behind head protruding horizontally over the shoulder. He is followed by a deity also in a short tunic, wearing high boots and bearing a mace Assyrian? Attributes: 7 Pleiades and crescent moon and goose.
7552	(none)	(none)	B16885, B16885	Cylinder seal. hematite. Black. Inscribed. Scene of worship. Shamash standing with left foot on raised step, right foot on ground, left hand raised to greet heavily draped male figure whose left shoulder is bare. Behind a goddess wearing flounced kaunakes skirt with hands upraised, and behind goddess AIA? a warrior with a bent staff carried in right arm. Below the inscription a Simish. Attributes: crescent and moon and Simish. Inscription: ^dBABBAR(^ilSumas): ^dA-A(^ilAia).
1410	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Hematite. Introduction to a god seated facing right. Inscription in 2 lines obliterated.
16365	(none)	1931,1010.24	(none)	Cylinder seal. Hematite. Presentation scene, 3 standing figures.
17318	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Limestone. Grey. Tree and criss cross decoration.
16552	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder-seal, hematite. No personal name Shamash: Aia H.C. 30/II, 8.
15710	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight miniature. Hematite. [drawing 1:1]
16250	31-43-111	(none)	(none)	Duck weight 3.84 grs. Blackish-brown steatite. Probably half-sheqel (nominal weight 4.208grs.). Type VI.
16932D	31-43-110	(none)	(none)	Duck weight hematite. Weight 4.232 grs. Half-sheqel (nominally 4.208 grs.). Type VI
18820	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight hematite. Type VI.
18886	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight hematite. Type VI.
16422R	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight Hematite. Weight 0.960 grs. 1/3 Minette (nominally 0.935). Type VI.
6008	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Black hematite.
18584	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Hematite.
13504	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Hematite. Plain, without head. Black. Type VI.
13518	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Hematite. Type VI. [drawing 1:1]
6542	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Stone. Gray. Type VI. E.
16603	(none)	(none)	(none)	Ear stud. Dark green hematite. [drawing 1:1]
16704	31-43-42	(none)	(none)	Fragment. Cylinder seal. hematite. Presentation scene; Standing god and 2 standing figures approaching. Crescent moon and star.
12708D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Copper bowl. Oval. [Type] LXIII. [B] (2) Copper lamp cut as a shell. Normal type. [C] (3) Copper pin. Type V B. Lapis ball head with copper caps. Badly broken. [D] (4) Beads. Broken carnelian lentoids, 2 lapis double conoids, 1 hematite double conoid.