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)
16166 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Agate, steatite, jasper, glass paste, carnelian lentoids, barrels, balls, double conoid.
16171 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. God ascending a mountain. 3 deities approaching kneeling animal.
16172 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. black steatite. Presentation scene: 1 seated & 2 standing deities. Crescent moon.
16173 31-43-38 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Fragment. Black steatite. Presentation scene: 1 seated and 2 standing deities.
16174 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Fragment (half only). Black steatite. Presentation scene: 1 seated and 2 standing deities. Crescent moon and dog.
16180 31-43-3 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Two rows of deeply incised circles.
16183 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Gilgamesh, Eabani, rampant lion. A thrid figure attacking a rampant stag. INSCRIBED(?)
16184 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene. Enthroned god and two standing figures. Attributes: Crescent moon, goose, pair of scorpions & lizard.
16185 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite? Therimoachy. Poor cutting. Archaic
16192 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. 3 standing figures, palm rising from a high vase. Crescent moon.
16205 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Dark steatite scaraboid, on the base a scorpion roughly drawn. Glazed scarab (glaze gone); and some glazed lentoid beads, one of pink pebble, one crystal bead & a big hematite ball bead. [drawing]
16210 (none) (none) (none) Scaraboid seal. Dark steatite. Design thus. [drawing 1:1]
16229J 31-43-115 (none) (none) Weight 26.22 GRS. Pebble. Ovoid. Grey. Probably 1&1/2 sheqels (?) (Nominal weight 25.248 GRS.) Type I
16229K 31-43-259 (none) (none) Weight 40.32 GRS. Steatite. Grey-Green. Pyramidal with round top. Perhaps 5 sheqels (nominal weight 42.08 grs.) Type IV.
16230 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene with seated god, one worshipper and introducing god.
16239G 31-43-117 (none) (none) Bar-weight 2.88 grs. Diorite. Green. [Drawing] 1 minette (nominal weight 2.805 grs.) Type ? III
16239O 31-43-119 (none) (none) Weight 1.92 GRS. Long ovoid. Steatite. grey-green. 13 Little sheqels (nominal weight 1.82 grs.) cf. 16239N. Type III.
16239R 31-43-120 (none) (none) Weight 2.24 GRS. Steatite, lentoid. black. Type II.
16246A (none) (none) (none) Group: [C-D] 2 copper scale-pans; [A-B] 2 steatite weights (black), (A) long ovoid Type III. 2.75 grs = 1 minette (nominal weight 2.805 grs.) (B) lentoid Type III. 1.728 grs. =1/2 minette(?) (nominal weight 1.4025 grs.); [E] 1 copper chisel; Type [F] 1 copper ring; [G] 1 hollow gold bead, spherical, ribbed.
16246B (none) (none) (none) Group: [C-D] 2 copper scale-pans; [A-B] 2 steatite weights (black), (A) long ovoid Type III. 2.75 grs = 1 minette (nominal weight 2.805 grs.) (B) lentoid Type III. 1.728 grs. =1/2 minette(?) (nominal weight 1.4025 grs.); [E] 1 copper chisel; Type [F] 1 copper ring; [G] 1 hollow gold bead, spherical, ribbed.
16251 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight 1.92 grs. Brownish-black steatite. 1/4 sheqel (nominal weight 2.104). Type VI.
16262 31-43-37 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene with standing god and three other figures.
16268L (none) (none) (none) [G-N] Stone pounders. Pebbles, mostly natural shape, of hard stone, of different sorts, several of them bearing marks when they have been used for hammering gold, or where gold has been hammered on them. Most have been split by the heat when the temple was burnt. Amongst them are [O-Q] 3 worked tools, pounders. [drawing]
16268C 35-1-403 (none) (none) [A-F] Set of weights: steatite, fire-blackened. To be weighed. [A] (1) Ovoid; [B] (2) long ovoid, broken and repaired; [C] (3) lentoid, broken and repaired; [D] (4) lentoid; [E] (5) narrow lentoid; [F] (6) fragment, 3 inscribed strokes on side. [drawing]
16268A 35-1-400 (none) (none) [A-F] Set of weights: steatite, fire-blackened. To be weighed. [A] (1) Ovoid; [B] (2) long ovoid, broken and repaired; [C] (3) lentoid, broken and repaired; [D] (4) lentoid; [E] (5) narrow lentoid; [F] (6) fragment, 3 inscribed strokes on side. [drawing]

Related Terms

Igneous - Sedimentary

Child Terms

Greenstone - Marble - Quartzite - Schist - Slate

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Inorganic Remains > Stones and Minerals > Stone > Metamorphic