This material comes in every color. Usually found in sand, Used in glass and as gemstones.

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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)
16692 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings and lozenges; glass paste rings and balls; rock crystal flattened lentoid.
16697 31-43-147 (none) (none) Beads: Mostly lentoids. Jasper, carnelian, granite, agate, sard, lapis, quartz. A few carnelian balls and double conoids.
16710A (none) 1931,1010.255 (none) Beads: 401 in all. Jasper, quartz, lapis lazuli, carnelian, agate, cats eye, breccia, granite, amethyst, copper, and various mottled stones, reddish brown, grey, etc. 1 gold double conoid; order not know. Mostly lentoids. Also barrels, rings, double conoids, balls.
16710B (none) (none) (none) Beads: 401 in all. Jasper, quartz, lapis lazuli, carnelian, agate, cats eye, breccia, granite, amethyst, copper, and various mottled stones, reddish brown, grey, etc. 1 gold double conoid; order not know. Mostly lentoids. Also barrels, rings, double conoids, balls.
16727 (none) 1931,1010.219 (none) Beads: Carnelian, lapis lazuli, agate, quartz, lentoids, bugles, double conoids, rings and a lapis lazuli frog amulet.
16743 31-43-46 (none) (none) Quartz cylinder. Unengraved. Unpierced. cf. U. 16606. [drawing 1:1]
16760 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Quartz. Shaped like a flattened truncated cone with base slightly convex and 4 sides.
16782 (none) (none) (none) Beads: 1 carnleian ring bead; 1 carnelian double conoid; 1 carnelian lentoid; 1 agate lentoid; 1 quartz lentoid; 1 lapis lentoid.
16927D (none) 1931,1010.232 (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
17037 31-43-144 (none) (none) Necklace. Carnelian, discois, lentoids, double conoids, amethyst, facetted tetragonal, lozance shaped in facetted lentoids. Lapis Lazuli double conoid. Agate beads like: [reference to drawing]. Quartz lentoids. [drawing]
17038 31-43-140 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian, quartz and a few lapis lazuli lentoids and double conoids.
17051 (none) (none) (none) Necklace. Amethyst [represented in drawing] four sided, lozange shaped in section carnelian. Double conoids and lentoids and diamonds. Silver ball beads. Glass paste rings, balls, discoids, barrels. Agate. Squares. Lapis lazuli flat lentoid with dragon (?) engraved amethyst scaraboid with fish (?) engraved. [drawing]
17053 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 5 amethysts [represented in drawing] four sided. 1 oval carnelian. 1 large glass paste double conoid. [drawing]
17054 31-43-164 (none) (none) 4 beads. 1 amethyst - 4 sided [represented in drawing] lozenge shaped section. 3 carnelian (2 discoid and 1 ring bead). 1 bone lentoid. [drawing]
17056 31-43-159 (none) (none) Beads. Amethyst oval, flat on our side, convex on the other. Quartz lentoids and double conoids. Jasper lentoid. Agate barrels and lentoids. Granite double conoid. Black steatite amulet, on oval shaped stamp seal with an animal figure engraved thereon surmounted by a squatting lion. Glass paste scaraboid bead. Carnelian double conoids.
17057 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian lentoids and double conoid. Quartz double conoid. Lapis lazuli barrel. Agate barrel.
17090 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian lentoids, balls, discoids, scaraboids. Amethystine quartz scaraboids. Lapis lazuli discoid, scaraboid. Glass paste, yellow, balls, lentoids and 1 miniature puzuzu head. Carnelian pieces of inlay consisting of round lapis centers in a mother of pearl circular backing set in a circular steatite backing.
17094 31-43-129 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian, lentoids, square section tubes, ring beds. Agate double conoids, lentoids, one ball bead. Amethyst double conoids. Not in tab anal.
17095 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian lentoids. Agate lentoids. Quartz lentoids. Steatite lentoids. Breccia lentoids. Glass paste lentoids, double conoids. One carnelian pendant. One banded sard pendant. Also one glass paste puzuzu head pendant. [drawing]
17365 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian double conoids and quartz. Agate lentoids and quartz. Lapis ball and lentoid. Glass paste balls. Green amazonite (?) ring beads.
17375 (none) (none) (none) Bracelet. Copper ring beads and double conoids with ridged ends. Carnelian balls, ring beads, double conoids, rock crystal scaraboid. Hematite (?) (?) Barrel. Rock crystal ball bead. 5 greenish glass paste scaraboids one with quasi hieroglyphic signs other with criss cross pattern, star and conventionalized tree. For order see field notet. Also hematite pendant oval, flat, crescent moon and 2 gazelles, mother giving such to young. [drawing 1:1]
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.
17417 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 1 amethyst facetted. 1 marble lentoid. 1 carnelian double conoid. 1 steatite lentoid. 1 frit lentoid. 2 glass paste flattened tubular beads, lozenge shaped in section.
17420 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Silver balls and rings. 1 carnelian barrel. 1 agate barrel. 2 facetted amethysts.
17441 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian with white bands (a lentoid). Quartz. Agate.

Child Terms

Amethyst - Rock Crystal