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)
5 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Very coarse grey steatite (?) edges badly chipped.
20 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite Greenish-grey. Seated figure of a divinity rt, before whom 5 standing figures.
80 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Greenish white steatite. Subject, god seated rt. A minor deity introducing a worshipper: inscr. in 2 columns [drawing of inscription] 3rd Dynasty
125 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. [drawing 1:1]
141 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Gilgamesh (?) and lion, sacred tree and another human figure. Poor work and much worn.
160 (none) (none) (none) Conoid seal. Black steatite on base. A roughly sketched design almost recognizable. [drawing 1:1]
173 (none) (none) (none) Vase: Lid. frs of;. Dark grary steatite. About 1/3rd preserved(in 2 pieces) decorated with incised double concentric circles dot centered.
174 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Very poorly engraved. [drawing]
211 (none) (none) B14967 Stone vase. Fr. of. Fine-grained black stone. On the outside, carved in low relief an animal strongly resembling a pig, but with a bushy tail stands on its hind legs (L), one front paw resting on a conventional mountain. The work is rather crude but vigorous. The vase is of unusual form for a stone vase, section more or less, thus [referencing drawing], the foot being made in a separate piece. [drawing]
219 (none) (none) (none) Tablet. Dark green-grey steatite. Fragment. Face flat, inscribed: the central part of the text has been destroyed by hammering. The back is rounded and plain: it also shows hammer marks. [Annotated] Records the name of certain objects dedicated. [Annotated] Sent to Baghdad.
220 (none) 1923,1110.38 (none) Tablet. Dark steatite. Fragment only Inscribed on both sides. [Annotated] Probably concerns the building of E-temen-ni-il. [Annotated] Placed in IN/No. 1.
222 (none) (none) (none) Tablet of Dark steatite. Complete. Inscription on face with text in 7 registers and on back with one line. [Annotated] Dedication of a temple by Dungi to Min-Sak. [Annotated] Copied and transliterated. Placed in P.R. [Annotated] Sent to Baghdad.
223 (none) (none) (none) Tablet of dark steatite. Broken across. Inscribed on both flat face and rounded back: on the face 8 1/2 lines of broken text remain, on the back 7 and a small bit. [Annotated] Dedication to Adad by Rim-Sin. [Annotated] Copied and transliterated. Placed in P.R. [Annotated] Sent to Baghdad.
224 (none) (none) (none) Dark Steatite vase. fr. of rim. On the outside, carved in relief in very fine and free style: a male figure kneeling on l knee, body l, face front, holds up 2 vases of water each vase being grasped round the neck by the hand of other figures (mostly missing) in similar positions.
231 (none) 1923,1110.41 (none) Stone vase. 4 fragments (of which 2 fit together) of a straight-sided bowl of dark steatite. On the outside, mythological scenes carved in relief - two-headed monster holding the horns of an ibex: another figure fighting serpentine beast: a lion: scorpions: fish, etc. On the inside, inscription. [Annotated] Drawing only [Annotated] Reg. Ins. 9
234 (none) (none) B15272 Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Scratchily engraved with 2 versions of a man fighting with a rampant lion. Poor.
239 (none) (none) B14968, B14968 Steatite vase. Fr of On the outside, a bull carved with the body in low relief, the head projecting in the round: behind, hind quarters of a second bull (there were presumably 4 on this vase). The body of the bull and the field of the vase are decorated with bone inlay, trefoils and dots, the moon, the sun and geometrical figures. Very fine work indeed. Underneath, on the base, remains of one side of a column of inscription.
280 (none) 1923,1110.34 (none) Fragment of black stone vase. With circular depressions for inlay on side and bottom. The inlay remains in two cases. Four rows decreasing in size on side. Above bottom rim an inscription reading "Dungi, the mighty man, king..."
281 (none) 1923,1110.33 (none) Fragment of stone vessel. Showing lip and five rows of depressions for inlay. Shaped [drawing of shape]. Inscribed ".....king of Ur."
283 (none) (none) B14952, B14952 Fragment of stone vase. One side, decoration of concentric circles. On base ends of lines of a column of inscription.
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}
309 (none) (none) (none) Fr of statuette. Base and feet only preserved. Steatite, dark There are holes pierced horizontally through the base as if to attach it to something
405 (none) (none) B14953 Stone vase-lid. Light steatite. Circular. Knob handle broken: round the top a band of dotted concentric circles.[drawing]
447 (none) (none) (none) Pyramidal seal. Black steatite. one half of Subject: a standing god rt; before him a standing worshipper l: between them a sacred column (?) and a scorpion.
448 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Subject: a god standing and two worshippers one on each side of him. Very poor, scratchy work.

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