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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16927C | (none) | 1931,1010.232 | (none) | Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering] |
| 16374 | (none) | 1931,1010.237 | (none) | Necklace. Black steatite & white glass paste barrel beads. |
| 17371 | (none) | 1931,1010.244 | (none) | Beads. Glass paste lentoids. Glass paste ring beads, small green.; Carnelian oval flat bead engraved thus: [reference to drawing]; Lapis lazuli ball bead. 1 jasper?; Double conoid. Dark green. 1 greenish quartzite double conoid. [drawing] |
| 17312 | (none) | 1931,1010.26 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 standing figures. |
| 16795.2 | (none) | 1931,1010.260 | (none) | [.1-.2] Beads: glass paste: balls, lentoids, pear-shaped beads, 1 variegated glass bugle bead-combed decoration. Also carnelian, agate and steatite; and some worked yellow glazed beads. |
| 16690 | (none) | 1931,1010.27 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Miniature. Spread eagle. |
| 16551 | (none) | 1931,1010.30 | (none) | Cylinder seal, steatite. Lugal... H.C. 30/II, 7. |
| 17337 | (none) | 1931,1010.32 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. (Inscribed) Part of 2 signs remain. Half only remains. Enthroned god. Crescent moon. |
| 16803 | (none) | 1931,1010.33 | (none) | Steatite cylinder seal. |
| 16123 | (none) | 1931,1010.34 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers. Above: presentation scene - 3 standing figures. Below: geese(?). |
| 16600 | (none) | 1931,1010.35 | (none) | Steatite cylinder-seal (not pierced). Warad- ^dSin dumu ha-ma-tum-za (!) (obs. The inscription is not reversed as in ordinary seals. But the second line precedes the first.). |
| 16024 | (none) | 1931,1010.37 | (none) | Steatite Cylinder seal. Illegible. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 17401 | (none) | 1931,1010.38 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Dark green. |
| 16602 | (none) | 1931,1010.39 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Greenish grey steatite. |
| 17324 | (none) | 1931,1010.40 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Theriomachy. Figures roughly cut. |
| 16820C | (none) | 1931,1010.41 | (none) | [A-C] 3 steatite cylinder seals. (A) Illegible, save for first sign. (B) Adad ; (C) Awel-ilim (wrt LU.DINGIR.BA), Son of Ur-Dam-bur(?). |
| 16664 | (none) | 1931,1010.42 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Presentation scene: 2 standing figures before an enthroned god. |
| 16751 | (none) | 1931,1010.45 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Unpierced. |
| 16610 | (none) | 1931,1010.63 | (none) | Stamp seal. White marble? 3 animals, one of them a gazelle? [drawing] |
| 17223 | (none) | 1931,1010.67 | (none) | Steatite plaque-pendant (with holder at top perforated for suspension. Phoenician inscription. Not illustrated. [drawing] |
| 16613 | (none) | 1931,1010.71 | (none) | Stamp seal. Black steatite. Spread eagle. [drawing] |
| 16106 | (none) | 1931,1010.72 | (none) | Flat seal. Greenish grey steatite. Spread eagle and gazelle - a pair? |
| 17609 | (none) | 1932,0010.8 | (none) | Fragment of celt. Schist. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17787A | (none) | 1932,1008.107 | (none) | Beads. 2 double conoid carnelian. 1 lentoid carnelian. 5 double conoid silver. 3 barrel agate. 31 flat lentoid agate. 1 flat lentoid steatite. Necklace of 17 agates, rectangular with vesical section. Necklace of 23 lentoid agates and 14 gold balls. |
| 17787B | (none) | 1932,1008.119 | (none) | Beads. 2 double conoid carnelian. 1 lentoid carnelian. 5 double conoid silver. 3 barrel agate. 31 flat lentoid agate. 1 flat lentoid steatite. Necklace of 17 agates, rectangular with vesical section. Necklace of 23 lentoid agates and 14 gold balls. |
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Greenstone - Marble - Quartzite - Schist - Slate
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