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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![]() | 17713 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Introductory scene; standing Gilgamesh figure; seated Ningal, crescent above; another standing figure; incomplete. |
![]() | 17727 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Man, standing, facing gazelle with eagle displayed over back; man kneeling behind gazelle; crescent on staff. |
![]() | 17730 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Steatite. Head. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17737 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Broken; seated figure; standing figure; line of inscription; scorpion. Son of Ur^d- HC 1931/5. |
![]() | 17739 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Running gazelles. |
17743 | 32-40-313 | (none) | (none) | Bead. Steatite. [drawing 1:1] | |
![]() | 17745 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. 2 men fighting lion; 2 lines of inscription. |
![]() | 17746 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Introductory scene; seated deity; 2 men; line of inscription. NAM-SILIM(?)-NI Jis [peaceful fate HC 1931 / 2. |
![]() | 17748 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. On lower end cut at an angle; running gazelles. |
![]() | 17763 | 32-40-329 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Obscured; 2 lines of inscription. Adoring figure of goddess separated by star on staff. |
![]() | 17769 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Introductory scene; seated deity with crescent over 3 lines of inscription. |
17787C | 32-40-229 | (none) | (none) | Beads. 2 double conoid carnelian. 1 lentoid carnelian. 5 double conoid silver. 3 barrel agate. 31 flat lentoid agate. 1 flat lentoid steatite. Necklace of 17 agates, rectangular with vesical section. Necklace of 23 lentoid agates and 14 gold balls. | |
![]() | 17801B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: From one grave. (A) [A and D] 2 gold earrings, small hollow lunette type. (B) [B and E based on museum divisions] Beads: lentoids, bugles, flattened lentoids of barrels of crystal, agate, marble, lapis, carnelian, and a cat's eye: also, probably from a separate string, small balls of carnelian and of copper plated with gold foil - the latter mostly perished. (C) [C and F] 2 plain copper bangles, one broken. |
![]() | 17805C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: From one burial. [drawing] (A) Copper chopper. Broken but complete. (B) Copper tumbler, the sides slightly carinated, the base raised, in bad condition. (C) Cylinder seal, black steatite; seated figure and criss cross background. (D)A few beads. Lapis, carnelian, agate and steatite lentoids (the last with criss-cross incised decoration) and one gold ball. |
17805D | 32-40-232 | (none) | (none) | Group: From one burial. [drawing] (A) Copper chopper. Broken but complete. (B) Copper tumbler, the sides slightly carinated, the base raised, in bad condition. (C) Cylinder seal, black steatite; seated figure and criss cross background. (D)A few beads. Lapis, carnelian, agate and steatite lentoids (the last with criss-cross incised decoration) and one gold ball. | |
17813E | 32-40-227 | (none) | (none) | Group. From one burial. (A) [A and K-L] 3 gold frontlets. (B) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (C) [C and M] Two gold hair-rings, spirally coiled with lunate ends, with one of them [N] a silver ring. (D) Beads: a string of very small fluted gold balls and carnelian balls and one very thin lapis bugle with gold caps. (E) Beads: gold balls, agate, carnelian, marble and jasper; long bugles, flattened lentoids, disks and lentoids. (F) [F and O] Two gold bracelets, of thin gold bent over copper wire. (G) Silver bracelet, plain wire. (H) [H and I] Copper bracelets, 2, plain wire. (J) Copper axe, thus: [reference to drawing] a copy of the old type but not cast: hammered and the socket made by bending. Type S10. [drawing] | |
17816F | 32-40-236 | (none) | (none) | Group. From one burial. (A) Two gold frontlets, oval type with pierced top [A and G]. (B) A pair of gold earrings, small hollow lunate type [B and H]. (C) A single gold earring, same type. (D) Gold hair ribbon. (E) Gold finger ring. (F) Beads: gold and carnelian diamonds. A few gold balls and carnelian rings or lentoids, large hollow gold balls with long carnelian bugles (2) and one barrel, 1 steatite, 1 quartz and 1 agate lentoid. One small ball. | |
![]() | 17817A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group. From one burial. (A) Cylinder seal, dark steatite: goddess on a goose, crescent on staff, snake emblem (?) and worshipper (naked) holding a full libation jug. (B) A few beads, gold balls, small, steatite, lentoid, carnelian ball and lapis fly. (C) Copper axe. |
![]() | 17817B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group. From one burial. (A) Cylinder seal, dark steatite: goddess on a goose, crescent on staff, snake emblem (?) and worshipper (naked) holding a full libation jug. (B) A few beads, gold balls, small, steatite, lentoid, carnelian ball and lapis fly. (C) Copper axe. |
![]() | 17852 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. A mixed collection of carnelian, sard & agate lentoids & bugles, carnelian rings, lapis paste lentoids, glazed frit fluted ball, lapis ball, quartz lentoid, amethyst lentoid, pebble lentoid, 2 unshaped but pierced rock crystal lumps & a steatite cylinder seal completely defaced. |
17856 | 32-40-239 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Very small rings of white shell and dark steatite in bad condition. | |
![]() | 17859 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Puzuzu head black steatite. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17871 | 32-40-326 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Badly chipped. Presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and 3 columns of inscription. |
![]() | 17877 | 32-40-323 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity & standing attendant. Poor cutting. |
17890 | 32-40-455 | (none) | (none) | Fragment of a stone vase. Grey steatite. Carved in relief with a figure of a gazelle and other objects, one apparently the head of a man. Rough poor work. [drawing 1:1] |
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