This is usually dark gray to black in color. It is usually used as a building stone.

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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)
14499A (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Grey basic diorite. Type XVIII.
14500 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Basic diorite (?) Dark grey. Type IX (RC19a) JN12.
14914 31-16-361 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Light grey basic diorite (?) Hemispherical, with slight base cap. JN14 =JN.5 new.
15041 30-12-523 (none) (none) Weight Diorite? (elongated date stone) inscribed: 1 shekel. Type III.
15102 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. Basic diorite(?) Granite colored but soft. Badly smashed but complete. Not in catalog.
15103 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Dark green stone. Basic diorite? Not in catalog.
15104 31-16-369 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Dark green stone. Basic diorite (?) Broken. Not in catalog.
15113 31-16-367 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Greenish grey basic diorite? Type XV. ? Drawing. JN22.
15114 31-16-364 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Greenish grey basic diorite? Type XI. RC22c. JN8.
15115 87-28-15 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Dark green basic diorite. Smashed. Type XII. RC22c. JN50.
15120 31-16-377 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Dark green basic diorite? Smashed. Type similar to U.14194. RC14.
15121 31-16-374 (none) (none) Stone vase [bowl has been corrected]. Greenish grey basic diorite(?). Broken but complete. Type XXXIII? [drawing 2:5]
15124 31-16-363 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Greenish grey basic diorite? Type IX(RC19a) [drawing 2:5]
15126 31-16-375 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Greenish grey basic diorite(?). Type IX (RC19b) JN10 (new)
15133 31-16-372 (none) (none) Stone tumbler. Greensih grey basic diorite. Portion of side missing. [drawing 2:5]
15140 31-16-373 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Dark green basic diorite. Type XIII. JN38. [drawing 2:5]
15160 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Greenish grey basic diorite(?). Type XXI. RC19a. [drawing 2:5]
15169 31-16-360 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Dark green basic diorite? Lip decorated with incised lines running in pairs, one pair obliquely to the next: 26 pairs in all at irregular intervals. Not in catalog.
15307 31-17-126 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. 2 men & 2 scorpions.
15474 31-17-21 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 scorpions.
15478 31-17-20 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing god, worshipper & rampant lion.
15479 31-17-130 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Chariot drawn by an antelope(?) headed by a man. Emblem-spread eagle.
15578 (none) (none) (none) Clay pot. Painted: fragments. With reddish-brown paint on light red clay. Shape & design doubtful (fragments collected).
15582 31-16-473 (none) (none) Hematite (?) Lump. Found by the head of the body in a TO grave.
15813 31-17-124, 31-17-124 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed.

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Basalt - Obsidian - Gabbro - Granite