Metamorphic
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 12639 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Slightly concave. Poor engraving. Broken and mended. Presentation scene before seated goddess, two figures approaching and an attendant behind the throne. Seated goddess wears horned and (feathered?) headdress and flounced kaukanes skirt. Before and behind her shoulders undulating lines represent lightening? Minor deity approaches salaams the seated god with right hand upraised: this deity wears a plain skirt and horned headdress. The votary introduced by the minor god wears a feathered headdress: apparently the feathers are arranged in two tiers. Behind throne an attendant deity also horned. Along lower portion of seal a band of reticulated decoration. |
| 12666 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. Poor cutting. |
| 12681 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Slightly concave. Hero fighting 2 rampant lions crossed. |
| 12795A | 30-12-18 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Squat furniture type. Poor cutting. Stags? In procession and signs of doubtful import. | |
| 13031 | 30-12-44 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Greenish. Presentation scene and 1 dwarf-like figure. | |
| 13050 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Steatite. Badly cracked. Bell type. |
| 13052 | 31-16-485 | (none) | (none) | Donkey's head. Steatite. Fragment in relief on stone vase. [drawing 1:1] |
| 13511A | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 necklaces (A) Steatite bugle, steatite double conoid, calcite barrel, carnelian bugle, steatite bugle, gold ball fluted, carnelian bugle, gold ball fluted, steatite bugle, steatite bugle. In order. (B) Second string in following order: steatite ring bead, ditto, steatite double conoid, ditto, gold ball, carnelian disc pendant with white border decoration, gold ring bead, jasper double conoid, ditto. |
| 13514 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Green. Concave. Enkidu and Gilgamesh fighting rampant bull and rampant lion. Beasts back to back. Not in RC volume. |
| 13520 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene three standing figures a reserve for an inscription which has not been added. |
| 13522 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Brownish. Nude hero between two rampant gazelles and on either side of the gazelles a rampant lion. Palm tree. |
| 13527 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Steatite. Greenish grey. Probably cut down. Type see field notes. [Type] CIII. |
| 13552 | 31-17-125 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Crude cutting. | |
| 13556 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace. Steatite, lapis and carnelian beads. 1 flattened calcite double conoid. For order see Field note. |
| 13663 | 31-17-23 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Broken. God and worshipper, crescent and emblem. Fragment of inscription. steatite. HC.1929/30 - 100. | |
| 13704 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Spindle whorl. Half of ... of pink stone, (steatite), polished; the top slightly convex. [drawing] |
| 13714 | 31-16-371 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Half of: Rather roughly worked in dark grey steatite. Type rough rimless variant of type RC112. Not in field notes. [drawing] | |
| 13745 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Small white shell rings. Strung in 2 loops kept together by a little rectangular black steatite spacer. Probably a bracelet. Found on the floor of the room, in order. |
| 13749 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Roundel. ? spindle whorl. Dark grey steatite. Top slightly convex. [drawing 1:1] |
| 13888 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Man fighting beast; man fighting lion. Inscribed: -lugal-tur-nir (?) HC.101 |
| 14054 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Steatite(?) ball head. Tip of pin missing. Type V, A. |
| 14071 | 31-16-379 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Greenish steatite. Bell type. Broken & riveted in antiquity. Type LXVI. |
| 14429A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian ring beads. Red jasper double conoids. Quartzite cylindrical. Steatite? Discoid, flat one side, convex on the other . Agate lentoid and pendant shapes thus. [drawing] |
| 14438 | 31-16-492 | (none) | (none) | Stone roundel. Dark grey slate or schist. Flat below, above a shallow truncated cone: small hole through centre. (chipped at edge). |
| 14446 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Rosette. Black steatite. With shell centre. Worked on both side: the face convex. [drawing 1:1] |
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