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)
18747 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated Ningal and two standing figures: two columns of inscriptions erased. Much worn.
18754 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Grey steatite. Half of. Showing the process of manufacture. The outside is roughly shaped: the inside has been gouged out with a chisel blade 6mm wide. It has never been finished and all the tool marks are preserved. It would appear that the inside was to be finished belfore work on the outside was resumed.
18759 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. One seated and two standing figures.
18760 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. A man fighting one winged dragon and another animal. Very poor cutting and much worn.
18780 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Unpierced. Two standing figures one on each side of a staff surmounted by a crescent.
18781 (none) (none) (none) Frog amulet. Light grey steatite. [drawing 1:1]
18790 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Three standing figures and a crescent on a pole: two columns of inscription, much erased.
18791 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Two men fighting a lion. Poor work.
18792 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. A standing god and two worshippers, with 2 columns of inscription badly worn and purposely defaced. Photo impossible.
18801 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. A standing figure on either side of a crescent set on a pole. (Not pierced).
18802 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark brown steatite. Two men fighting a winged dragon: behind them an emblem on a pole, and a snake.
18821 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark. Two standing figures, an emblem on a post, and two scorpions.
18836 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Small shells, pierced; carnelian cylindrical, carnelian ring; marble diamond; steatite discoid; chert (?) date-shaped, double conoid; white frit from amulet. A very poor lot.
18847 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity and two standing figures, and two columns of inscription. Much worn.
18848 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of stone bowl. Steatite. Decorated in relief. [drawing 1:1]
18849 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Hard black steatite. Worshipper and minor god before Nin-gal; behind her, a small figure of a god standing on an animal. Photo +.
18865 35-1-40 (none) (none) Stone bowl, fragment of. Greenish steatite, with roughly engraved pattern on sides. [drawing 1:1]
18870 35-1-12 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Seated goddess and two standing figures.
18874 (none) (none) (none) Weight Steatite. Date-shaped. Type II.
18875 (none) (none) (none) Weight Steatite. Date-shaped. Weight according to Baghdad 81 2/3 grammes = 1260.27 Troy grains (1 gramme = 15.432 Troy grains)
18884 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Very much worn and defaced. A seated deity and two standing figures, and a thrid standing figure by a door(?).
18889 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Seated Nin-gal, worshipper and symbols.
18896 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Two seated figures and a palm tree(?).
18899 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Seated deity and two standing figures. Poor.
18901 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 3 large crystal flattened date-shaped; 1 limestone ditto; 1 agate barrel; 3 steatite rings.

Related Terms

Igneous - Sedimentary

Child Terms

Greenstone - Marble - Quartzite - Schist - Slate

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