Metamorphic
This category contains any rock type that has been subjected to different temperature and pressure conditions.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 17898 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Mixed lot, off many shapes and materials, found in or just below the floor of an early Neo-Babylonian level and presumably of that date, though some may well be old beads re-used. Shapes include ball, ring, cylinder, rhomboid, diamond, date shaped, elliptical, polygonal, double conoid, poppyseed, chisel, pear pendant, one miniature celt. Materials include carnelian, marble, steatite, sard, calcite, quartz, amethyst, agate, mother of pearl, shell, glazed frit, limestone (?), granite, hematite, crystal. |
| 17900 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Door of shrine on back of animal; crescent above table on which things are laid; star. |
| 17905 | 32-40-246 | (none) | (none) | Beads. 2 carnelian bugles; 1 carnelian ball; 1 flat ovoid chalcedony; 1 lentoid marbles; 1 paste ball. | |
| 17908 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 3 flat barrel agates; 1 flat barrel blue granite; 1/2 flat lentoid marble. |
| 17921 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Introductory scene; 2 figures and deity standing; crescent on staff; line of inscription. |
| 17928 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Boss of string of beads. Steatite with inlay of shell, alternating pieces painted with yellow. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17929A | 32-40-120 | (none) | (none) | Celts. [Woolley did not assign subletters; they are assigned in this database based on the order of drawings on the card] [A] Schist [drawing 1:1] [B] Schist [drawing 1:1] [C] Shale [drawing 1:1] [D] Jasper [drawing 1:1] [drawing side view 1:1] [E] Diorite [drawing 1:1] [F] Diorite [drawing 1:1] [G] Diorite [drawing 1:1] [H] Schist [drawing 1:1] |
| 17972A | 32-40-139 | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 palettes. Steatite. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18101 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Seated goddess with altar and tree. |
| 18102 | 32-40-141 | (none) | (none) | Head of statue in dark grey steatite. Fragment: only the back of the head with the ears and the corner of one eye. Clean shaven. Broken off across the neck. |
| 18113A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads [A]. Agate elliptical and date shaped, marble elliptical, carnelian date-shaped, carnelian tubular and ball shaped and long double conoid, shaped agate, facetted eliptical in carnelian, blue glaze disk. [drawing] [B-C] Also, scraps of gold foil. [D-E] Also 2 bone spindle whorl. |
| 18114 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. A standing god and goddess: a small nude female figure, 2 dogs (?) and another animal and 3 columns and inscription. |
| 18115 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 1 malachite cylinder, 2 white calcite rhomboids, 1 cylinder seal, grey steatite, much defaced, with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and traces of 2 columns of inscription: cylinders of shell, steatite, pine limestone, some originally with figures but all defaced, eliptical beads of white calcite, agate, biconvex rectangles, square section tubular red limestone, black stone discoid, carnelian date-shaped, glass ball, and one limestone disk with crudely incised design thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing] |
| 18116 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone mug. Mottled. Brown steatite with handle, and 2 holes below the rim as if to attach a lid. Intact. Heavy and not well-shaped. [drawing] |
| 18117 | 32-40-140 | (none) | (none) | Stone object. Grey steatite (?). Rather fiddle shaped, flat, the face decorated with incised rosettes and concentric circles, the sides with guilloches, the back unfinished -- two concentric circles and an attempt to connect them with a guilloche faintly scratched. On the top originally rose minute figures delicately carved in the round of a man and two bulls: of them only the feet and hooves are left. |
| 18118 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Very dark steatite. Decorated on the outside with a procession of 5 bulls standing with the bodies in profile and the head turned outwards: bodies in fairly high relief, heads in the round. Over the back of each animal an ear of barley. Very fine work. A chip out of the (plain) rim and a larger break which has taken off the head of one of the balls = otherwise in perfect condition, straight-sided bowl. |
| 18119 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone plaque. Rectangular, of very dark steatite. Plain. |
| 18120A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. Carnelian balls and rings and tubular steatite cylinders and date-shaped. Carnelian eliptical, calcite eliptical jasper (?) biconvex square, hematite pear pendant, flattened rough pebble pendant and a few large paste beads, much decayed also. [B] 1 very small gold lunate earring. [C-D] 2 small silver earrings and [drawing] [E-F] two plain silver rings. |
| 18121A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. Agate ball and carnelian balls and double conoids; chalcedony double conoid; lapis, jasper agate and carnelian date-shaped; jasper (?) double conoid; [B] amethyst scaraboid; [A] steatite flattened balls; glazed frit discoid; [C-D] 2 glazed frit thick discoids with criss-cross on one side: [E] small glazed scaraboid with bungled heiroglyphs: [F] pebble scaraboid. Roughly incised thus: [drawing] [G] carnelian domical ovoid roughly engraved with figure of deer (?); [H] small puzuzu head in turquoise: [I] chalcedony seal, with Persian figure of a man standing in prayer. [drawing] [J] Also: a copper fibula. [drawing] |
| 18144A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. A mixed lot. Carnelian, agate, jasper, marble hematite lapis and agate. Mixed shapes: one double tubular; date stamped, tubular, rings etc. Also, a spindle whorl of grey steatite. |
| 18145 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Introduction scene with seated goddess and 1 standing figure and a tree: star and crescent above. |
| 18146 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Two registers. Introduction scene, above, with seated goddess and 2 standing figures. Below, swans. |
| 18156 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black diorite. Seated god: before him an altar with 2 worshippers and a lute. |
| 18193 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Half of. Dark steatite. Standing figure of a god, and a column of inscription. |
| 18194 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Spindle whorl of dark steatite. With slashed pattern thus [reference to drawing] [drawing 1:1] |
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