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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 18210 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Vulture's head. Mottled dark steatite. The eyes deeply hollowed to receive inlay. The lower side of the head is smoothly finished, with no sign of any attachment to a body: the head might have been used for a weight (?) or, is isolated, as an amulet. Fine bold work. |
| 18219 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Scene of worship with one seated and one standing figure, and a tree. |
| 18224 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase fragment. Black and white marble with fragment of inscription. Probably belongs to U.1455. H.C. |
| 18233 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal, black steatite. Much damaged: two heroes fighting an animal. |
| 18245 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Dark grey steatite. Puzuzu head. Good minute work. |
| 18249 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp of dark steatite. Perhaps a jeweller's die. A god standing on the back of a lion. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18258 | 33-35-173 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene. Seated goddess, with 2 standing figures and 2 lizards. Poor condition. |
| 18276 | 33-35-174 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Fragment of greenish grey steatite. Only 2 columns of inscription left; no figures. |
| 18282 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark greenish grey steatite. A naked hunter with 2 lions heraldically crossed and rampant. Rather poor archaic work. |
| 18283 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. A god and a worshipper, standing and 2 columns of inscription. |
| 18291 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Amulet. Translucent green steatite. |
| 18293 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Eagle (?) with outspread wings, in angles of fretted zigzag. |
| 18312 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of stone vase. Bowl: dark steatite. Plain band at rim = the rest of the outside carved with scale pattern thus[reference to drawing], the scales originally filled in. With scales of white shell of which the centers were of another material. |
| 18313A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Inlay. Fragments of grey steatite. Hair of head or beard from a large figure. [drawing] [A] One large piece thus [reference to drawing]. [B] One fragment from the upper part perhaps fitting on, [C] and one single curl |
| 18322 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Date shaped, of marble and other stones, coarsely made. Order not original but beads are brought in together. |
| 18330 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. (broken). 2 registers: above, presentation scene with seated god and 2 standing figures: below a line of swans. |
| 18331 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 3 standing figures. |
| 18332 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 3 standing figures. |
| 18334 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Unfinished. First sketch for lower part of standing human figure. |
| 18337 | 33-35-169 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, with convex tip, pierced horizontally. Subject: 2 animals, a third animal and an unrecognizable object: engraved mostly with the circular drill. |
| 18339 | 33-35-168 | (none) | (none) | Fragment of statuette. Grey steatite. Part of a male figure wearing the Kaunakes with upper part of body bare: the hands clasped over the breast. Preserved , one half of the body, cut vertically, right side & rt arm, from just below the shoulder to the hip. The figure was deliberately cut in pieces: the saw marks go partly through the figure and then the fragments were broken apart. Fine work of about 3rd Dynasty or a little earlier. |
| 18340 | 33-35-162 | (none) | (none) | Calf's head in dark steatite. The neck pierced horizontally for attachment The eyes hollowed for inlay and a hole for inlay in the forehead. Good archaic work. | |
| 18341 | 33-35-164 | (none) | (none) | Animal's body. Grey steatite. Body of couchant animal, the hind quarters complete, in fairly high relief: the front leg only sketched: the stone is rounded off at the shoulder so that there never was a head. The body is flat and bears two engraved signs thus. [drawing] |
| 18342 | 33-35-165 | (none) | (none) | Puzuzu head. Dark steatite. With ring for suspension. Coarse work. [drawing] | |
| 18349 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Darks steatite. Two figures, standing on either side of a date palm. |
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