Metamorphic
This category contains any rock type that has been subjected to different temperature and pressure conditions.
Objects: Metamorphic Export: JSON - XML - CSV
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 15611 | (none) | 1930,0012.13 | (none) | Stone vase. Fragment. In mottled dark grey & white marble fragment with part of flat base and side. [drawing] |
| 15801 | (none) | 1930,0012.13 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Fragment. Inscribed. |
| 15482 | (none) | 1930,1213.135 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene before seated deity. Inscribed. |
| 14478 | (none) | 1930,1213.137 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. 3 deep grooves, between which 3 pairs of human figures rough primitive work mostly done with a drill-point. |
| 15323 | (none) | 1930,1213.138 | (none) | Stamp seal. Black steatite. Square, with oval handle laterally pierced. Much worn: on the face a design. [drawing] |
| 14476 | (none) | 1930,1213.139 | (none) | Stamp seal. White marble(?) or pebble. scaraboid shape. Rudely engraved below thus: [drawing 1:1] |
| 15357 | (none) | 1930,1213.150 | (none) | Beads: One steatite flattened oval; one ring-bead of green-blue jade(?) and a quantity of minute while shell rings found with a head in the mixed burial L. [drawing 1:1] |
| 13748 | (none) | 1930,1213.232 | (none) | Pounder. Dark grey stone. Polished. Section at base. Not in catalog. [drawing 1:1] |
| 13545 | (none) | 1930,1213.265 | (none) | Stone tumbler. Steatite. For type see Field note. [Type] CII. |
| 14058 | (none) | 1930,1213.269 | (none) | Stone vase. Dark green steatite. Cut down. Decorated with bands of rough half circles in relief. Type: see Field Note. ? (U.14059 painted on object) |
| 13511B | (none) | 1930,1213.515 | (none) | 2 necklaces (A) Steatite bugle, steatite double conoid, calcite barrel, carnelian bugle, steatite bugle, gold ball fluted, carnelian bugle, gold ball fluted, steatite bugle, steatite bugle. In order. (B) Second string in following order: steatite ring bead, ditto, steatite double conoid, ditto, gold ball, carnelian disc pendant with white border decoration, gold ring bead, jasper double conoid, ditto. |
| 13712 | (none) | 1930,1213.521 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Pinkish-white marble. Design of a man fighting with an antelope and a bull, of which the latter is attacked by a lion; the man kneels on one knee. Very crude work. |
| 15321 | (none) | 1930,1213.523 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. 2 worshippers. |
| 15475 | (none) | 1930,1213.524 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Spread eagle. |
| 16723 | (none) | 1931,1010.105 | (none) | Stone Bowl. Greenish grey steatite or basic diorite(?). Trough spout. Decorated with concentric circles round upper portion of body. Type _. see field notes for drawing. |
| 16268E | (none) | 1931,1010.115 | (none) | [A-F] Set of weights: steatite, fire-blackened. To be weighed. [A] (1) Ovoid; [B] (2) long ovoid, broken and repaired; [C] (3) lentoid, broken and repaired; [D] (4) lentoid; [E] (5) narrow lentoid; [F] (6) fragment, 3 inscribed strokes on side. [drawing] |
| 16333 | (none) | 1931,1010.120 | (none) | Mace head. Grey and white mottled marble. Squate pear-shaped. |
| 16181 | (none) | 1931,1010.13 | (none) | Button seal. Steatite. Incised cross on flat side. Convex side also had triple cross incisions and incised circles. Over part of the seal is a white surface that has the appearance of a glaze. Seal has been perforated transversely through the convex side. The white surface is visible also the inside of the perforated hole. [drawing] |
| 16429T | (none) | 1931,1010.160 | (none) | Weight. Bugle [crossed out] Cylindrical. Haematite. Red-Brown. Weight = 1.28 Grs = 1/2 Minette (nominally = 1.4025) Type III |
| 16239N | (none) | 1931,1010.161 | (none) | Weight 1.92 grs. Long ovoid. Steatite, grey. 13 little sheqels (nominal weight 1.82 grs.) cf. 16239O. Type III. |
| 16020 | (none) | 1931,1010.17 | (none) | Steatite Cylinder-seal. Namhani son of Ur-baga. HC.30/I.6. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 16429P | (none) | 1931,1010.182 | (none) | Weight. Slightly flattened lentoid. Black marble with white veins. thus: [Drawing] Incised marks on 1 side. Weight 5.952 grs. = 1 double minette (nominally 5.611). Type II. |
| 16152 | (none) | 1931,1010.19 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Part of one end missing. Seated god, 2 standing gods & between them a squatting dog(?). |
| 16138 | (none) | 1931,1010.218 | (none) | Beads: agate double conoids; carnelian double conoids; quartzite double concoids; carnelian ring beads. |
| 16340 | (none) | 1931,1010.23 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite 2 standing figures in attitude of alutation on either side of a palm which rises from a high vase. Crescent moon and scorpion. |
Related Terms
Child Terms
Greenstone - Marble - Quartzite - Schist - Slate
Share
Email | Edit | Build Search
Parent Terms
Inorganic Remains > Stones and Minerals > Stone > Metamorphic