This category contains any rock type that has been subjected to different temperature and pressure conditions.

Objects: Metamorphic Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
16808 (none) (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal.
16818 (none) (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal. Awel-^dAdad, the attendant of the ...son of...
16819 (none) (none) (none) Steatite cylinder seal. (fragment) (not pierced). Na-bi-u(m...) Son of...
16820A 31-43-31 (none) (none) [A-C] 3 steatite cylinder seals. (A) Illegible, save for first sign. (B) Adad ; (C) Awel-ilim (wrt LU.DINGIR.BA), Son of Ur-Dam-bur(?).
16820B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 steatite cylinder seals. (A) Illegible, save for first sign. (B) Adad ; (C) Awel-ilim (wrt LU.DINGIR.BA), Son of Ur-Dam-bur(?).
16820C (none) 1931,1010.41 (none) [A-C] 3 steatite cylinder seals. (A) Illegible, save for first sign. (B) Adad ; (C) Awel-ilim (wrt LU.DINGIR.BA), Son of Ur-Dam-bur(?).
16927C (none) 1931,1010.232 (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
16932A 31-43-93 (none) (none) Weight Blackish-brown steatite(?) Spindle-shaped. Weight 0.576 grs. 4 little sheqels (nominally 0.560) Type ?
17003 (none) (none) (none) Puzuzu head. Steatite. Black.
17013 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Dark grey. 3 standing figures. Presentation scene.
17014 31-43-65 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Miniature. Gilgamesh and Eabani fighting rampant lion.
17015 31-43-52 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 figures before a standing goddess. Goose
17016 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Pink. Presentation scene. 3 standing figures and a fourth dwarflike figure.
17017 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Calcite. Grey. Unpierced. Seated god and standing figure before hair.
17024 (none) (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Mottled grey. Hero between a pair of antelopes? Rampant very faintly outlined. [drawing]
17028 31-43-69 (none) (none) Flat seal. Steatite. Black. Oval. Upper side convex and umbilical antelope (?) and a bird on its back [drawing 1:1]
17049 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Greenish grey. Inscribed. One sign only obliterated god, palm in a high vase, goddess - both figures standing and saluting. Persian.
17056 31-43-159 (none) (none) Beads. Amethyst oval, flat on our side, convex on the other. Quartz lentoids and double conoids. Jasper lentoid. Agate barrels and lentoids. Granite double conoid. Black steatite amulet, on oval shaped stamp seal with an animal figure engraved thereon surmounted by a squatting lion. Glass paste scaraboid bead. Carnelian double conoids.
17086 (none) (none) (none) Bracelet. Amethyst beads. Facetted double conoids and oval beads. Lozange shaped in section, 3 scaraboid beads, our chalcedony (?) engraved with a very roughly drawn horned beast, one greyish steatite engraved with a gazelle one carnelian engraved thus [reference to drawing]. One square agate bead - lozange shaped section. One lapis lazuli bead thus. One agate barrel. Glass paste beads, mostly balls. [drawing]
17090 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian lentoids, balls, discoids, scaraboids. Amethystine quartz scaraboids. Lapis lazuli discoid, scaraboid. Glass paste, yellow, balls, lentoids and 1 miniature puzuzu head. Carnelian pieces of inlay consisting of round lapis centers in a mother of pearl circular backing set in a circular steatite backing.
17095 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian lentoids. Agate lentoids. Quartz lentoids. Steatite lentoids. Breccia lentoids. Glass paste lentoids, double conoids. One carnelian pendant. One banded sard pendant. Also one glass paste puzuzu head pendant. [drawing]
17100 31-43-67 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Steatite. Black. Conoid. Bearded male figure holding an offering before a throne (?) or altar with a high back in which is planted a spear. Emblems. Fish and crescent moon. [drawing]
17107 (none) (none) (none) Puzuzu head amulet of dark steatite. (left side of forehead chipped).
17108 (none) (none) (none) Stone head. Dark steatite. For amulet (or for inlay?) unfinished work.
17118 (none) (none) (none) Stand (?) of white steatite (purpose unknown). [drawing 1:1]

Related Terms

Igneous - Sedimentary

Child Terms

Greenstone - Marble - Quartzite - Schist - Slate

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Inorganic Remains > Stones and Minerals > Stone > Metamorphic