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)
7922	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight Lentoid. hematite. Type II.
8147	(none)	1928,1009.129	(none)	Necklace. 90 carnelian ring beads. 7 hematite ring beads. 12 silver beads, double conoids - 1 poppy head? lentoids and bugle beads.
8439	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. 29 beads in all 10 barrel carnelian, 4 silver double conoids the rest lapis double conoids. Found in ground in following order: 1 silver 2 lapis 1 carnelian 1 hematite?? 1 carnelian 1 silver 1 large lapis 1 silver 3 lapis 1 carnelian 4 lapis 1 carnelian 1 silver 1 carnelian 2 lapis 1 carnelian 1 silver 1 carnelian ETC Carnelian barrel beads, silver and lapis double conoids.
8466A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-E] 5 weights, [A-D] 4 hematite, [E] 1 silver lentoid. hematite - 1 lentoid, 1 conoid, 1 ovoid, 1 roughly cylindrical, slightly bigger at base than at top. weights: Types I, II, III, IV.
8466B	(none)	(none)	B17615	[A-E] 5 weights, [A-D] 4 hematite, [E] 1 silver lentoid. hematite - 1 lentoid, 1 conoid, 1 ovoid, 1 roughly cylindrical, slightly bigger at base than at top. weights: Types I, II, III, IV.
8466C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-E] 5 weights, [A-D] 4 hematite, [E] 1 silver lentoid. hematite - 1 lentoid, 1 conoid, 1 ovoid, 1 roughly cylindrical, slightly bigger at base than at top. weights: Types I, II, III, IV.
8466D	(none)	1928,1009.455	(none)	[A-E] 5 weights, [A-D] 4 hematite, [E] 1 silver lentoid. hematite - 1 lentoid, 1 conoid, 1 ovoid, 1 roughly cylindrical, slightly bigger at base than at top. weights: Types I, II, III, IV.
8644	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Bugles of lapis (and hematite?). Silver beads and a few carnelian rings. For order see field notes.
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]
9291	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Haematite Gilgamesh & Eabani, & tree
9292	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Black haematite Introduction scene with 1 - seated and 3 - standing figures. A column of inscription has been intentionally effaced
9330	(none)	1928,1009.25	(none)	Cylinder seal Hematite Scene: 2 men, 2 bulls, 1 lion fighting.
9538A	(none)	(none)	B16911A	3 Haematite Weights [A-C] Lentoid shaped. Probably goldsmiths weights Type II Published in Vol. II The Royal Cemetery
9578	(none)	1928,1010.251	(none)	Cylinder Seal Haematite Presentation scene, seated god and 3 standing figures and a tree
9586	(none)	(none)	B16947	Cylinder Seal Haematite Black Seated god greeting 2 other divinities who approach bearing offerings? All wearing the horned headdress. Behind throne a palm tree? Attribute: Cresent moon.
9618	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal Black hematite Spread eagle, 2 antelopes, small bird, crescent moon
9740	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal Haematite Black 2 bearded bulls rampant, back to back. Each is attacked by a hero. Behind one hero, who appears to be wearing a forked tiara, is a rampant lion. This hero apparently wears a short-skirt, the second is bearded and naked. Beyond a rampant bull and rampant gazelle accosting one another; behind the gazelle a small naked figure--possibly a devil?
9875	(none)	(none)	(none)	13 Carnelian ring beads. Coarsely cut, chipped circumference after the manner of the earliest beads from Al Obaid. 1 very roughly cut flattened double conoid; polished black hematite. Date: before 3500 BC
11959	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. hematite (broken)
12036	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder hematite. Intended for a seal but left uncut and only one end bored.
12631	(none)	1929,1017.326	(none)	[A] Beads. A motley collection including: rock crystal balls, hematite balls, shell and (Chrysoprase?) [chalcedony] bugles (broken), [B.1-.3] 2 unpierced steatite cylinders (for seals). 1 - unpierced marble cylinder (ditto) and [C] fragment of an obsidian mace head. (truncated pear shaped).
12712A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-G] 7 hematite weights. [A-B] 2 pebble one of reddish hematite. [C] 1 bell shaped (Type XIII), also [D] ovoid (Type I), [E] conoid (Type IV), [F] hemispherical (Type XIV), [G] lentoid (Type II).
13035A	(none)	1929,1017.461	(none)	[A-B] 2 Haematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum]
13035B	(none)	1929,1017.466	(none)	[A-B] 2 haematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum]
13504	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Hematite. Plain, without head. Black. Type VI.