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)
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.
17733	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight. Hematite. Type II. [drawing 1:1]
17752	32-40-127	(none)	(none)	Weight. Haematite. Square cut. Type II. [drawing 1:1] ZT. not req_d for vol. V
17757	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight. Hematite. Marked with a cross. Type II. [drawing 1:1]
17776	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight. Hematite. Type? II. [drawing 1:1]
17784A	32-40-132	(none)	(none)	Weights [A-G]. Heamitite [sic]. a set of 7 date shaped haematite weights. [drawing] Types II, III
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
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.
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.
17980	32-40-128	(none)	(none)	Weight. Haemitite. Type II. [drawing 1:1]
18120A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Beads. Carnelian balls and rings and tubular steatite cylinders and date-shaped. Carnelian eliptical, calcite eliptical jasper (?) biconvex square, hematite pear pendant, flattened rough pebble pendant and a few large paste beads, much decayed also. [B] 1 very small gold lunate earring. [C-D] 2 small silver earrings and [drawing] [E-F] two plain silver rings.
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.
18522	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings. One large steatite (?) ring.
18584	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Hematite.
18820	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight hematite. Type VI.
18873	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight hematite. Long thin date-shaped. Type III.
18886	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight hematite. Type VI.
18928	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Grey hematite. Square, with tubular handle. A seated figure to whom an attendant offers a spouted libation vase. Very curious cutting, especially in the faces.
19577	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads 3 very long shell tubes, shell cylinders, small shells pierced, large black hematite barrels, carnelian rings.
19850	35-1-79	(none)	(none)	Beads. 6 hematite and 1 red stone. Large ring beads.
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.
19867	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Large oval flat shells, small cylinders, one red stone (steatite?) and one hematite ring, one calcite rhomboid.