This category contains any rock type that has been subjected to different temperature and pressure conditions.

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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)
7894 (none) (none) B16881 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated Nannar. Nannar and minor deity wear flounced kaunakes skirt and low head dress. Votary shaven and shorn wearing long skirt fringed in front. Behind votary a rampant lion between 4 vertical lines, which may represent the doors of a shrine? Attributes: crescent moons one against the other as on the burnt bricks of Sin-Iddinam.
7895 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed with the names of three divinities: ^dNI?-TUR-KU? ^dNin-dul, ^dAya. Two heavily draped divinities greeting one another, between them one line of inscription. Behind the minor deity a second line of inscription. Behind this an attendant carrying a club? Behind, a third line and a second attendant, hands clasped at waist.
7897 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Steatite. Black. 2 spread eagles. Reversed and undulating toothed band running between them and round the body of the seal.
7898 (none) 1928,1010.243 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene to seated Nannar. Minor deity leads votary by the hand. Criss-cross markings. IIIrd Ur Dynasty.
7899 (none) (none) (none) Flat seal. Steatite. Black. 2 birds reversed and a scorpion?
7909 (none) 1928,1009.28 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Green. Enthroned god with high horned headdress and kaunakes skirt stretching out wand to bull supporting shrine on his back. On either side of shrine, wings outspread and behind shrine a worshipper carrying a curved staff in his outstretched hands. Hair done up in a knot above shoulders. Bull is probably a symbol of strength and thus supports the shrine, the worshipper is probably represented as about to enter and the god as seated within. [drawing]
7915 (none) 1928,1009.58 (none) Flat seal. Convex on one side. Hole perforated through top for attachment. Whorl design on flat side. Yellowish marble with red streaks.
7920 (none) (none) B16900 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Scene of worship before Nannar. Enthronoed Nannar wearing horned headdress extends right hand to greet 2 standing gods also wearing horned headdress and with left arm upraised. Attributes: crescent moon and spear? with a shaped top.
7923 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Marble. Brownish, and black. Slightly concave. Gilgamesh fighting rampant lion. Behind the lion a gazelle which follows Enkidu who fights a rampant bull. Behind the rampant bull a star over a crescent moon. c. 2700BC.
7976 (none) 1928,1009.119 (none) Ball bead of black steatite.
7989 (none) (none) B16864 Cylinder seal. Black steatite with silver caps. Subject Gilgamesh and Eabana fighting bulls. (N.B.) part of the linen thread was preserved in the hole)
8041 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White steatite. Scene: Gilgamesh(?) and 4 rampant animals, in the centre 2 bulls heraldically crossed, flanking them 2 lions.
8063 (none) 1928,1009.519 (none) Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Finely polished. Type LXII.
8072 (none) (none) B16806 Amulet of grey slate in form of a bird. [drawing 1:1]
8085 (none) 1928,1009.18 (none) Cylinder seal of yellowish white quartzite. Two registers: Above, a door(?), then a seated deity & a worshipper, then a worshipper pouring a libation into a tall vase with fronds rising from it, set in front of a seated deity. Below, 2 rams, one on each side of a tree, then a worshipper before a seated deity, then a man catching a rampant antelope. Very archaic style.
8093 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark fading to yellow. Introduction scene: a seated deity, a minor god, and 2 worshippers.
8104 (none) 1928,1009.430 (none) Vase. Steatite. Green. Cut down from a tall vase and made into a bowl with low sides. Part of rim missing. [drawing 2:5] CIII
8135 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Steatite. Green. 3 bull's hoofs incised on body. Part of rim broken and mended. Stone type LXVI.
8240 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Well polished. Type LIX.
8336 (none) 1928,1009.458 (none) Spoon-bowl(?) A white steatite(?) Almost flat but very slightly concave. On one side and more prominently convex on the other. Broken at the spring of the handle. [drawing]
8342 (none) 1928,1009.26 (none) Cylinder seal. Mottled grey steatite. Subject: a seated god, with an attendant behind his chair and 3 personages upright in front of him: all wear the horned headdress, so it cannot be the presentation scene. Good, bold work.
8347 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Dark greenish steatite. The edge ornamented by nicking in a chevron pattern. Type IX.
8425 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite Black Scene of worship? Primitive in style. Figure with both hands up raised approached by figure carrying an offering? Behind the votary an introducing deity? right arm upraised.
8461 (none) 1928,1009.33 (none) Cylinder seal Steatite? Grey Two registers Above: door of a shrine? Two gods seated and facing one another between them a spread eagle Below: spread eagle
8476 (none) (none) B16887 Cylinder seal Steatite Black Inscribed but illegible. Two heroes attacking a rampant lion. One grasps him by the tail, the other attacks from the front.

Related Terms

Igneous - Sedimentary

Child Terms

Greenstone - Marble - Quartzite - Schist - Slate

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