Agate
Agate is characterized by its fineness of grain and brightness of color. They are commonly associated with volcanic rocks and can be found in metamorphic rocks. This mineral can be white, grey, blue, orange, red, yellow, or black. It has a moh's hardness of 6.5-7.
Agate is characterized by its fineness of grain and brightness of color. They are commonly associated with volcanic rocks and can be found in metamorphic rocks. This mineral can be white, grey, blue, orange, red, yellow, or black. It has a moh's hardness of 6.5-7.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 12433D | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb groups. From the bodies in the death pit. [Numbered entries refer to bodies, not all bodies associated with objects.] --With No. 5: [A] Lapis and silver double conoid beads. [B] Silver wire spiral coil earring. --With No. 7: [C] Lapis lentoid beads. --With No. 8: [D] Lapis double conoid beads and 1 long agate lentoid. --With No. 9: [E] Lapis double conoid beads. [F] Cylinder seal, white shell. --With No. 10: [G] Silver wire spiral coil earring. --With No. 11: [H] Lapis double beads --With No. 12: [I] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [J] Small lapis lentoid beads. --With No. 13: [K] Silver pin [Type] VI B with lapis head. [L] Lapis ball beads. --With No. 14: [M] Lapis ball beads --With No. 15: [N] Lapis and silver ball beads. --With No. 16: [O] Lapis and silver double conoid beads. --With No. 17: [P] Lapis ball beads. [Q] Silver wire spiral coil earring. --With No. 18: [R] Lapis lentoid beads. --With No. 20: [S] Lapis lentoid beads. --With No. 22: [T] Small lapis ball beads. [U] Also: one moderate sized silver lunate earring. |
| 12474.1 | 30-12-566 | (none) | (none) | [.1-.2] Beads. A very long chain composed of large and small jasper, chalcedony, agate, sard, marble, carnelian and other stones, cut as bugles, lentoids, barrels and flattened square-ended lentoids, alternating with gold balls, some plain, some ribbed, and one with relief pattern. These seem to have formed one chain but it must have passed two or three time round the neck: the beads covered a considerable area but lay very thickly under the head. Restrung on original pattern but not in original order. [additional drawing on back of catalog card] [drawing] | |
| 12475 | 30-12-568 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Beads of banded sard, square with levelled sided, forming a single necklace (original order). | |
| 12617 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace. Slender gold tubes. Carnelian rings. A few minute blue? Glazed frit. 5 large beads consisting of 2 gold worked double conoids, 2 carnelian balls, 1 agate bugle. [drawing] |
| 12702A | 30-12-632 | (none) | (none) | Group: [A] 1) Bead. Gold balls; carnelian bugles and barrels, agate boss, chalcedony flat lentoid. Agate double conoid, and silver also copper balls. Lapis diamonds. [B-C] 2) Gold earrings. A pair 1 1/2 coils, lunate ended - hollow bag like ends. | |
| 13040 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Two agate. 1 carnelian ring bead. 1 glazed ball bead. |
| 13055 | 30-12-602 | (none) | (none) | Bead. Carnelian double conoids and diamonds and flat carnelian beads. Agate square. 1 cat's eye (?) Chalcedony facetted barrels. Diamonds. | |
| 13509 | (none) | 1930,1213.20 | (none) | 7 beads. Comprising 1 hemispherical cat's eye. 1 agate barrel. 1 carnelian barrel. 4 fluted gold ball beads. Repousse work in a series of parallel undulations [drawing] |
| 13526 | 31-17-68 | (none) | (none) | 5 beads: carnelian elongated double conoid. Carnelian barrel. Agate cylindrical. lapis. barrel. Lapis double conoid. | |
| 13546 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 17 in number: for order see Field note. Agate, lapis and carnelian. Double conoids, barrels and 1 bugle. |
| 13553 | 31-17-63 | (none) | (none) | Beads: 20 in all, including: 4 gold ( double conoid) (1 fluted ball); 3 carnelian (2cylindrical) (! double conoid); 1 agate tubular; 1 lapis double conoid; 6 lapis barrels; 2 flattened agate double conoid; 2 rock crystal ball beads with frit(?) eyes. | |
| 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] |
| 14433A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Necklace. Agate and carnelian lentoids. Carnelian bulbs. |
| 14440B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian, red jasper, copper, agate, quartzite double conoids. |
| 15172 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Glazed barrels, frit. Agate lentoid. Carnelian double conoid. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15175 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Agate, carnelian, chalcedony. Two of the agates shaped thus: varied shapes: three-faced lentoids; cushion-shaped beads; balls, rings, barrels and lozenges. (lunate, heartshaped). [drawing 1:1] |
| 15180 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: balls, barrels, faceted tubluar beads, 3-sided lentoids, lozenges, lunate. Amethyst, carnelian, chalcedony, agate, glazed frit: 1 blue glazed frit eye of Horus. Persian. |
| 15301D | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A)[A-E] A pair of small lunate gold earrings; (B) Narrow gold ribbon twisted spirally; (C)[C and F-G] 3 gold finger rings, one made of two hoops of thin gold wire, the other two of sheet metal with the edges bent over inwards to look like 2 solid loops; (D) Beads, lapis, carnelian & agate (sliver beads all decayed) forming 2 strings(?) |
| 15305C | (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. |
| 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. | |
| 15312 | 31-17-67 | (none) | (none) | Beads: gold, lapis, carnelian, agate, limestone |
| 15317 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: Lapis, chalcedony, carnelian & agate (see Field Notes) the carnelian ball bead has a bleached pattern of crossed : the bleached carnelian is known in the main cemetery period, and this is the latest dated example except for the big Sargonid gold grave of 1928/9: the cross is usually called Kassite & its appearance thus early is important. [drawing] |
| 15403 | (none) | 1930,1213.95 | (none) | Beads: Amethysts. Faceted double conoids & 3-sided lentoids. Agate. Tubular beads and heart-shaped pendant. Carnelian ring beads & faceted balls. Onyx: barrel. |
| 15404 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: Carnelian balls & double conoids. Agate lentoids and balls. Sard(?) bead shaped like a double bun. Gold double conoid with circular ridged ends. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15453 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: Gold, agate and carnelian balls, and double conoids. |
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Carnelian - Chrysoprase - Jasper - Sard
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