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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)
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.

Related Terms

Igneous - Sedimentary

Child Terms

Greenstone - Marble - Quartzite - Schist - Slate

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