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) |
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![]() | 16138 | (none) | 1931,1010.218 | (none) | Beads: agate double conoids; carnelian double conoids; quartzite double concoids; carnelian ring beads. |
![]() | 16149 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Seated deity with left hand raised in salutation. Above him a star, and in front a kneeling bull browsing on a plant. Behind the bull entrance to a shrine. From the lintel of the shrine door, Palm(?) branches protrude. Possibly the bull may be a cult figure supporting a shrine on its back. |
![]() | 16151 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Gilgamesh & Eabani, rampant lion. |
![]() | 16152 | (none) | 1931,1010.19 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Part of one end missing. Seated god, 2 standing gods & between them a squatting dog(?). |
![]() | 16153 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Poor condition. Seated god, crescent moon and linear markings. |
![]() | 16154 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black seatite. Poor condition. Seated god & two standing gods, crescent moon. |
![]() | 16155 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. one end chipped. 2 registers. Palm tree rising from a vase, scorpions(?) and geese. |
![]() | 16156 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Unpierced. Gilgamesh, Eabani & rampant lion. |
![]() | 16157 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Solar disk(?) on a pole, crescent moon. |
![]() | 16161 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene: one seated and 2 standing deities. |
![]() | 16163 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene, 1 seated. |
![]() | 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. |
![]() | 16174 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Fragment (half only). Black steatite. Presentation scene: 1 seated and 2 standing deities. Crescent moon and dog. |
![]() | 16181 | (none) | 1931,1010.13 | (none) | Button seal. Steatite. Incised cross on flat side. Convex side also had triple cross incisions and incised circles. Over part of the seal is a white surface that has the appearance of a glaze. Seal has been perforated transversely through the convex side. The white surface is visible also the inside of the perforated hole. [drawing] |
![]() | 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] |
![]() | 16230 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene with seated god, one worshipper and introducing god. |
![]() | 16239N | (none) | 1931,1010.161 | (none) | Weight 1.92 grs. Long ovoid. Steatite, grey. 13 little sheqels (nominal weight 1.82 grs.) cf. 16239O. Type III. |
![]() | 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. |
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