Steatite
This rock is usually white to grey in color and very soft. It is usually used in statues and inlaid designs.
This rock is usually white to grey in color and very soft. It is usually used in statues and inlaid designs.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 17118 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stand (?) of white steatite (purpose unknown). [drawing 1:1] |
| 16425 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statue. White limestone; broken in half but complete. The eyes inlaid with lapis, brown-painted shell and steatite, the nose of plaster, yellow paint on top of head. Female figure, standing rigid, the hands clasped in front of the body; she wears a long garment with 7 pleated flounces reaching to the ground, the arms hiden by the second flounce with seems to be a short cape. Two long tresses of hair hang down in front over the shoulders, the rest of the hair hangs down behind in a heavy square-cut netting. A bandeau passes across the forehead and also it rises a flat sharp-edged disk marked by criss-cross lines. It is painted yellow & may represent the (early) gold ribbon headdress; in the top of it at the back are 3 holes in which must have been stuck hed ornaments after the fashion of the (early) comos. The ears are pierced for metal ear0ring. The nose (perhaps because the original had been broken off(?) was made separately; there was a deep slot to fasten it on; one half of the nose modeled in plaster (out in bad condition & mishappen) was found and has been provisionally attacked. The figure is extraordinarily ugly, and the workmanship is flaccid and mechanical. |
| 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. |
| 10714 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite bead Flattened double conoid Black [drawing] c. 1:1 |
| 16560 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite bead With Magical inscription. (cf. Neissner, Bablonian u. Assyrien. II, 214). |
| 9269 | (none) | 1928,1009.522 | (none) | Steatite bowl Broken & portion of rim missing Type LXII |
| 9354 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite bowl Broken into many pieces, but virtually complete Type? LXVI. |
| 10062 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite Bowl Dark greenish grey Bell shaped Type 17.5.P7 |
| 10061 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite Bowl Dark greenish grey Bell shaped Type__ |
| 10063 | (none) | (none) | B17153 | Steatite bowl Dark greenish grey Bell-shaped All the top badly broken but complete Type__ |
| 10060 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite Bowl Dark greenish grey Bell-shaped [drawing] (broken) Type 50 (new) |
| 10399 | (none) | (none) | B17183 | Steatite Bowl Rim chipped Roughly worked Type XVIII | |
| 10388 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite Bowl. Bell shaped. One side cut down in antiquity. Type LXII. |
| 302 | (none) | (none) | B14956 | Steatite box-lid. fr. of; Circular: the top carved with a rosette of which the petals were originally inlaid; two holes are pierced through the lid from side to side for strings. [Drawing 1:1} | |
| 6465A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite box. Fragment. Dark green. Incised zig-zag and circular decoration. E. [drawing 1:1] |
| 16803 | (none) | 1931,1010.33 | (none) | Steatite cylinder seal. |
| 16807 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite cylinder seal. |
| 16808 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite cylinder seal. |
| 16818 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite cylinder seal. Awel-^dAdad, the attendant of the ...son of... |
| 16819 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite cylinder seal. (fragment) (not pierced). Na-bi-u(m...) Son of... |
| 16026 | 31-43-23 | (none) | (none) | Steatite Cylinder seal. Fragment. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] | |
| 16022 | 31-43-39, 31-43-39 | (none) | (none) | Steatite Cylinder seal. Fragmentary . d.Sulpae son of... HC.30/I.8. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] | |
| 16024 | (none) | 1931,1010.37 | (none) | Steatite Cylinder seal. Illegible. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 17245 | 31-43-33, 31-43-33 | (none) | (none) | Steatite cylinder seal. Lazib, son of Bibi.[CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] | |
| 16021 | 31-43-25, 31-43-25 | (none) | (none) | Steatite Cylinder seal. Nana son of Gudea,the jeweller. HC.30/I.7. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
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