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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1411 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black marble (?) Eagle with outspread wings clutching the backs of 2 rampant ibexes which turn their heads backward. Between the heads of the 2 creatures is a palm-tree or symbol. No inscription. |
| 14415A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Engraved plaque. Steatite. Black. Trial piece for a cylinder seal(?) Leopard? With a plumed tail. Palm votives for altar. Seated deity with leopard head dress. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14416A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Model adze. Miniature. Steatite. Black. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14429A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian ring beads. Red jasper double conoids. Quartzite cylindrical. Steatite? Discoid, flat one side, convex on the other . Agate lentoid and pendant shapes thus. [drawing] |
| 14438 | 31-16-492 | (none) | (none) | Stone roundel. Dark grey slate or schist. Flat below, above a shallow truncated cone: small hole through centre. (chipped at edge). |
| 14440B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian, red jasper, copper, agate, quartzite double conoids. |
| 14446 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Rosette. Black steatite. With shell centre. Worked on both side: the face convex. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14459 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statuette. In dark grey steatite. Of a wild boar, represented as crouched with the head on the front hoofs: in the top of the back is a circular hole as if for a wooden support: on the sides a sharp groove as if the beast had rested in a stand with curved arms. The work is remarkably fine and naturalistic. |
| 14476 | (none) | 1930,1213.139 | (none) | Stamp seal. White marble(?) or pebble. scaraboid shape. Rudely engraved below thus: [drawing 1:1] |
| 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. |
| 14481 | 31-16-392 | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Grey marble(?) (translucent) Miniature. (rim all chipped away). Type RC.106 [drawing 1:1] | |
| 14482 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pendant. Grey & white marble. Decorated with 2 rows of drill-point holes (the top is broken). [drawing 1:1] |
| 14489 | 31-17-16 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. | |
| 14925 | 31-16-481 | (none) | (none) | Stone handle. Perhaps for a drill? [Drawing 1:1] Vol IV: PL. 28 (p.31.16.481) PFT E7-910h-950 |
| 15040 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Vase fragment. Steatite? inscribed Ibur. HC.150. |
| 1508 | (none) | 1924,0920.185 | (none) | Weight (?) Black stone, with groove cut round the middle. Like U.1507, more elongated. Type III. |
| 15154 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene. God, presenting deity and presented person, standing. 3 emblems on staffs. Ostrich & crane & scorpion. |
| 1523 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. One side much damaged. Device is in 2 registers. Introduction scene above and crude design of swans below. Inscription: ahat-i-li-lugal-usum-(gal)-la PA. For design and inscription compare U.1268 and U.1267. |
| 15302 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene. (found with group 15301) |
| 15305B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) [A and D] Pair of small gold lunate earrings; (B) String of 10 large beads from neck; calcite, chalcedony, steatite, copper and jasper; (C) String of small beads, lapis, agate, crystal, carnelian. |
| 15307 | 31-17-126 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. 2 men & 2 scorpions. | |
| 15308 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. Presentation scene to Ningal with 2 standing figures & the seated goddess. & a horned table of offerings. |
| 15310C | 31-17-98 | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) Narrow gold ribbon spirally twisted: (B) Gold finger ring made from a strip of thin metal with the edges curled over to imitate 2 solid hoops; (C) Beads from necklace: carnelian, lapis, gold, hematite, agate, steatite: for order see field notes.; (D) Small gold and lapis ball head; (E) Small lapis & carnelian beads (only about 5 altogether, mixed in box with (D). See Field Notes. | |
| 15318 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. A seated deity and a worshipper. |
| 15321 | (none) | 1930,1213.523 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. 2 worshippers. |
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Greenstone - Marble - Quartzite - Schist - Slate
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