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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 9844 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Green marble Inscribed Copper cap at each end. Scene of worship: en-menOan-na/ ur-si/ niOdu/ arad-da-ni - Enmenanna. Ursi, porter, his servant. Enthroned god saluting three divinities who approach with offerings. Enthroned god wears a wide brimmed conical cap. Attribute: the sun. Before him a flat-staff ? with a flag ? on a tripod. First approaching deity has a sword? suspended from waist, the second carries 2 corn ? stalks. Third deity carries a curved notched trident ? - (a name is written alongside this deity). Behind the throne a gazelle, and above it is a 3 column inscription. |
| 9542 | (none) | 1928,1010.246 | (none) | Cylinder seal Fragment Upper half missing Mottled marble Inscribed Presentation scene before seated god. Flounced kaukanes skirts. |
| 9908 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Fighting animals(?) rough and worn example. |
| 8673 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Dark steatite Two registers: above, swans Below, fish?? Poor rough work, approaching to the period of the IIIrd Dynasty |
| 9186 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Dark steatite Introduction scene with 1 seated and 3 standing figures and a tree. Poor work. |
| 9504 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Dark steatite Broken Presentation scene: seated Nannar with crescent, minor god and worshipper |
| 9652 | (none) | (none) | B16857 | Cylinder seal Dark steatite A hero fighting a bull (or wild oryx)? and a lion and a bull fighting. | |
| 9634 | (none) | (none) | B16935 | Cylinder Seal Dark steatite 2 heroes fighting lions | |
| 9527 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Dark steatite 2 heroes fighting beasts Poor scratchy style |
| 9282 | (none) | 1928,1009.27 | (none) | Cylinder seal Dark mottled steatite with copper caps. Introduction scene: seated god and 3 figures approaching him and carrying respectively a tall vase, a cup and box and a gazelle [three lines of undecipherable text erased] |
| 9750 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Dark green stone copper caps (one broken) Very finely engraved with religious scenes - god in shrine; god approaching a temple on a mountain, etc. |
| 9513 | (none) | (none) | B16941 | Cylinder seal Dark green steatite The eagle grasping 2 stags | |
| 9878 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Blue and white marble, speckled Palm, 2 rampant lions crossed and a rampant gazelle. |
| 9158 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Black steatite Presentation scene, seated & 3 standing figures. |
| 9923 | (none) | 1928,1010.250 | (none) | Cylinder Seal Black steatite Men fighting bulls and lions |
| 9283 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Black steatite Men fighting bull & lion an inscription has been intentionally erased |
| 10764 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Black steatite Crude second-rate cutting Male figure with head resembling a deaths head, standing between 2 tall rampant bipeds with long bills. Behind each a rampant beast, one of which is a lion; beyond the lion a tree, a bird-headed male figure wearing a (fork diadem)? and a vertical wavy line representing running water. |
| 9060 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Black steatite A standing bearded male accosts a seated god and a similar standing figure accosts a kneeling deity |
| 9893 | (none) | 1928,1010.248 | (none) | Cylinder Seal Black steatite 3 animals and a man fighting |
| 9501 | (none) | 1928,1010.247 | (none) | Cylinder seal Black steatite 2 heroes fighting a lion. Between the two human figures an inscription in 2 columns. Dugal-dug-ga dumu U-da Lugaldugga son of Uda HC.201 |
| 11604 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder . Steatite. 2 men and lion Inscrip: ? - ta (?)-...mudnannar dumu(?) Lugal-a(?)-bu(?) |
| 18913 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cyl;inder seal. Dark steatite, grey. Seated Ningal, 2 standing figures, a bird and a scorpion, etc. |
| 17639 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cutting instrument. Schist. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14054 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper pin. Steatite(?) ball head. Tip of pin missing. Type V, A. |
| 160 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Conoid seal. Black steatite on base. A roughly sketched design almost recognizable. [drawing 1:1] |
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