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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7920 | (none) | (none) | B16900 | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Scene of worship before Nannar. Enthronoed Nannar wearing horned headdress extends right hand to greet 2 standing gods also wearing horned headdress and with left arm upraised. Attributes: crescent moon and spear? with a shaped top. | |
 | 7923 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Marble. Brownish, and black. Slightly concave. Gilgamesh fighting rampant lion. Behind the lion a gazelle which follows Enkidu who fights a rampant bull. Behind the rampant bull a star over a crescent moon. c. 2700BC. |
| 7989 | (none) | (none) | B16864 | Cylinder seal. Black steatite with silver caps. Subject Gilgamesh and Eabana fighting bulls. (N.B.) part of the linen thread was preserved in the hole) | |
| 8041 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White steatite. Scene: Gilgamesh(?) and 4 rampant animals, in the centre 2 bulls heraldically crossed, flanking them 2 lions. |
| 8072 | (none) | (none) | B16806 | Amulet of grey slate in form of a bird. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8093 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark fading to yellow. Introduction scene: a seated deity, a minor god, and 2 worshippers. |
| 8135 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Steatite. Green. 3 bull's hoofs incised on body. Part of rim broken and mended. Stone type LXVI. |
| 8240 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Well polished. Type LIX. |
| 8347 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark greenish steatite. The edge ornamented by nicking in a chevron pattern. Type IX. |
| 8425 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite Black Scene of worship? Primitive in style. Figure with both hands up raised approached by figure carrying an offering? Behind the votary an introducing deity? right arm upraised. |
| 8476 | (none) | (none) | B16887 | Cylinder seal Steatite Black Inscribed but illegible. Two heroes attacking a rampant lion. One grasps him by the tail, the other attacks from the front. | |
| 8534 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Type VIII. |
| 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 |
| 8682 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Small straight-sided unguent pot containing green paint(?) Type XXI. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8685 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, button type. Design: below, a bull. Above. | |
| 8686 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. A mixed lot of lapis, carnelian, steatite, sard, etc. from a single string. |
| 8747 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Marble. Mottled. 5 standing divinities all wearing high horned headdresses. One walks upon the mountain - left leg straight, right leg slightly bent at knee as in an attitude of climbing - in his right hand he holds a plume? Oblique lines on either side touching the shoulders and waist possibly the sun's rays? Facing him a divinity carrying an offering? in his left hand, behind a god carrying a gazelle. Beyond but facing the opposite direction a god Ea? with water flowing from eah shoulder and beyond again a god grasping a ladder, head turned towards Ea as if inviting him to ascend. Possibly this is the ladder of heaven which has already been ascended by all except these two divinities. |
| 8764 | (none) | (none) | B17161 | Bowl. Steatite. Dark green. Stone type LXII. |
| 8793 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite black. Seated god and 4 erect - gods? approaching one holds a vase with a handle to it. |
| 8799 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed but obliterated. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hand? to seated god. |
| 8950 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Green steatite. (Broken) The surface is covered with a decoration like plano-convex birds upside down. Type VI. [drawing] |
| 8951 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Green steatite. (Broken) The whole outer surface is covered with a decoration in bands of alternating zigzags and bead-like dots in relief. Type C. [drawing] |
| 8991 | (none) | (none) | B16859A | Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark grey mottled. Scene: Gilgamesh, Eabani, lion and bull. | |
| 8999 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene, seated god and two standing figures. Inscription of KU-RU-UG SHAMASH, a merchant. |
| 9020 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Blue green steatite Concentric circle decoration round rim part of rim missing Stone Type XCIII |
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Greenstone - Marble - Quartzite - Schist - Slate
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