Metamorphic
This category contains any rock type that has been subjected to different temperature and pressure conditions.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8534 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Type VIII. |
| 8673 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Dark steatite Two registers: above, swans Below, fish?? Poor rough work, approaching to the period of the IIIrd Dynasty |
| 8682 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Small straight-sided unguent pot containing green paint(?) Type XXI. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8685 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, button type. Design: below, a bull. Above. | |
| 8686 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. A mixed lot of lapis, carnelian, steatite, sard, etc. from a single string. |
| 8697 | (none) | 1928,1009.520 | (none) | Stone bowl. Green steatite. Type LXVI. |
| 8699 | (none) | 1928,1009.17 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Brown mottled steatite. Winged god in a shrine and two minor gods apparently opening the shrine doors. |
| 8721 | (none) | 1928,1009.24 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Highly polished. 2 rampant lions crossed and on either side a rampant gantelope. Between the antelopes a palm or corn [drawing] |
| 8747 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Marble. Mottled. 5 standing divinities all wearing high horned headdresses. One walks upon the mountain - left leg straight, right leg slightly bent at knee as in an attitude of climbing - in his right hand he holds a plume? Oblique lines on either side touching the shoulders and waist possibly the sun's rays? Facing him a divinity carrying an offering? in his left hand, behind a god carrying a gazelle. Beyond but facing the opposite direction a god Ea? with water flowing from eah shoulder and beyond again a god grasping a ladder, head turned towards Ea as if inviting him to ascend. Possibly this is the ladder of heaven which has already been ascended by all except these two divinities. |
| 8763 | (none) | 1928,1009.523 | (none) | Vase. Stone. Steatite. Dark green. Stone type XC. |
| 8764 | (none) | (none) | B17161 | Bowl. Steatite. Dark green. Stone type LXII. |
| 8793 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite black. Seated god and 4 erect - gods? approaching one holds a vase with a handle to it. |
| 8799 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed but obliterated. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hand? to seated god. |
| 8950 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Green steatite. (Broken) The surface is covered with a decoration like plano-convex birds upside down. Type VI. [drawing] |
| 8951 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Green steatite. (Broken) The whole outer surface is covered with a decoration in bands of alternating zigzags and bead-like dots in relief. Type C. [drawing] |
| 8991 | (none) | (none) | B16859A | Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark grey mottled. Scene: Gilgamesh, Eabani, lion and bull. | |
| 8999 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene, seated god and two standing figures. Inscription of KU-RU-UG SHAMASH, a merchant. |
| 9020 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Blue green steatite Concentric circle decoration round rim part of rim missing Stone Type XCIII |
| 9026 | (none) | (none) | B16876 | Cylinder seal. Marble: green and white. A winged god wearing conical cap and a straight flowing skirt which is represented by vertical parallel lines, holds left arm slightly upraised while apparently addressing a second naked god. The second god is engaged in felling to the ground an unwinged god who is represented as utterly unbalanced, arms flung downward behind the head, head and feet drooping to the ground, middle of the body uppermost. Beyond: a third winged divinity stands over the back of a crouching man, right foot upon the neck, left foot upon the rump. The winged divinity also lays his right hand upon the head of a naked kneeling suppliant, and his left upon the head of a similar suppliant who kneels upon the left knee only. Bold but rather coarse cutting. Subject not hitherto found upon any cylinder seal from Ur. | |
| 9056 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Steatite Green Broken & mended Gilgamesh and Enkidu v rampant lion and bull |
| 9060 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Black steatite A standing bearded male accosts a seated god and a similar standing figure accosts a kneeling deity |
| 9083 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Steatite Black A hero fighting - between two rampant antelopes, and 2 rampant lions. Attributes: star on a post? [drawing of star on post] |
| 9114 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl Grey Steatite Type XIX |
| 9158 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Black steatite Presentation scene, seated & 3 standing figures. |
| 9165B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [Unknown] |
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Greenstone - Marble - Quartzite - Schist - Slate
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