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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17842K | 32-40-242 | (none) | (none) | Beads. A mixed lot. 192 carnelian bugles. 56 carnelian double conoids, lentoids and barrels. 11 large carnelian double conoids and facetted lentoids. 421 carnelian rings. 81 larger carnelian rings. 41 glazed frit balls. 43 lapis lazuli, rings, bugles, ovoids, small mixed beads, apatite (?) quartzite, shell, agate and crystal. | |
| 17905 | 32-40-246 | (none) | (none) | Beads. 2 carnelian bugles; 1 carnelian ball; 1 flat ovoid chalcedony; 1 lentoid marbles; 1 paste ball. | |
 | 18142C | 32-40-260 | (none) | (none) | Beads. A collection of mixed stone beads. The majority of stalagmite calcite, plain milky calcite, black and white granite, marble, steatite, pink limestone, jasper etc. ? Third dynasty. |
| 17693 | 32-40-312 | (none) | (none) | Bead. Steatite. Pierced lengthwise; series of scratchings. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17743 | 32-40-313 | (none) | (none) | Bead. Steatite. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 17877 | 32-40-323 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity & standing attendant. Poor cutting. |
| 17871 | 32-40-326 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Badly chipped. Presentation scene with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and 3 columns of inscription. |
| 17763 | 32-40-329 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Obscured; 2 lines of inscription. Adoring figure of goddess separated by star on staff. |
| (none) | 32-40-337 | (none) | (none) | Unknown |
| 17890 | 32-40-455 | (none) | (none) | Fragment of a stone vase. Grey steatite. Carved in relief with a figure of a gazelle and other objects, one apparently the head of a man. Rough poor work. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 18680 | 33-35-105 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey steatite. [drawing] | |
| 18585E | 33-35-127 | (none) | (none) | [A-I] A set of weights. Weights in grains [A] (1) Diorite, pierced at one end. 413 grs. [B] (2) Hematite . 130grs. [C] (3) Hematite 64grs. [D] (4) Hematite 65grs. [E] (5) Steatite 37grs. [F] (6) Steatite 7grs. [G] (7) Steatite 10grs. [H] (8) Hematite 78grs. [I] (9) Doubtful weight: white calcite shaped as a plano-convex brick 315grs. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 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] | |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 18452 | 33-35-179 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal of black steatite. Design: running gazelles, zigzags and frogs. |
| (none) | 33-35-181 | (none) | (none) | Unknown |
| (none) | 33-35-182 | (none) | (none) | Unknown |
| (none) | 33-35-183 | (none) | (none) | Unknown |
| (none) | 33-35-184 | (none) | (none) | Unknown |
| (none) | 33-35-185 | (none) | (none) | Unknown |
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