Sard

Sard is much like Carnelian except is is brown in color and slightly harder. Sard and Carnelian may be interchangeable.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
10779	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads 2 banded sard bugles 2 facetted gold double conoids 2 facetted lapis double conoids 4 medium sized lapis oval beads 3 small sized lapis oval beads 3 small sized gold oval beads
10793	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace Rough gold ball beads. Large flattened double conoid agate Sard lentoid-blue Carnelian bugles Rock crystal double conoid Banded sard bugle For order see Field Note
12127	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace 2 strings. Carnelian, lapis, gold, & banded sard. Carnelian lentoids, lapis double conoids, gold double conoids, lapis fly amulet. [drawing of amulet]
12474.2	30-12-567	(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]
13594	31-17-140	(none)	(none)	Beads. Minute gold double conoid sard barrel, lapis ring bead.
14029	31-17-147	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Gold and lapis ovoid beads. For order see Field note. With a sard clasp flattened ovoid shaped. [drawing]
14262	(none)	(none)	(none)	5 beads: 3 sard cylindricals; 1 double conoid; 1 calcite(?) 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]
16115	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian rings; white sard lentoid; green glaze balls; paste lentoids; amethyst double conoids; breceia triangle, agate barrels and lapis paste. (for order of stringing see Field Note).
16212	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: A mixed lot of paste, carnelian, agate, jasper, cats eye, crystal, breccia, sard, hematite, lapis, copper, amethyst. Order not kept.
16285	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: mostly amethyst. 4 facetted flattened lentoids, with these some squares of banded sard, small carnelian balls and some paste and shell rings, and a crescent-shaped pendant of agate. For order see Field Notes.
16286E	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-G] Group from one grave: [A] (1) Small green glazed bottle, Type LXXXVIII; [B-C] (2) Pair copper bracelets with ends; [D] (3) Copper finger ring with flat bezel; [E] (4) Sard scaraboid incised; [F] (5) Carnelian scaraboid engraved; [G] (6) 2 carnelian & one green glazed ball beads; [H-I] (7) 2 slender copper pins with the ends turned over (or point of one pin broken).
16375	(none)	(none)	(none)	Necklace. Carnelian, lapis lazuli, quartz, sard, mottled stone, variegated glass(?), rings, barrels, flattened double conoids. for order of stringing see Field Note.
16394	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads, 2: Sard lentoid, lapis bugle.
16688	31-43-160	(none)	(none)	5 beads: 1 gold ball-fluted with ridged ends; 1 carnelian ball and double conoid; 1 hemispherical sard; 1 lapis lazuli barrel.
16697	31-43-147	(none)	(none)	Beads: Mostly lentoids. Jasper, carnelian, granite, agate, sard, lapis, quartz. A few carnelian balls and double conoids.
17095	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Carnelian lentoids. Agate lentoids. Quartz lentoids. Steatite lentoids. Breccia lentoids. Glass paste lentoids, double conoids. One carnelian pendant. One banded sard pendant. Also one glass paste puzuzu head pendant. [drawing]
17408	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Glass paste. Copper. Sard. Calcite. Granite. For order see field note.
17411	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 1 carnelian ring bead. 1 Carnelian double conoid. 1 elongated sard (?) double conoid.
17852	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. A mixed collection of carnelian, sard & agate lentoids & bugles, carnelian rings, lapis paste lentoids, glazed frit fluted ball, lapis ball, quartz lentoid, amethyst lentoid, pebble lentoid, 2 unshaped but pierced rock crystal lumps & a steatite cylinder seal completely defaced.
17898	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Mixed lot, off many shapes and materials, found in or just below the floor of an early Neo-Babylonian level and presumably of that date, though some may well be old beads re-used. Shapes include ball, ring, cylinder, rhomboid, diamond, date shaped, elliptical, polygonal, double conoid, poppyseed, chisel, pear pendant, one miniature celt. Materials include carnelian, marble, steatite, sard, calcite, quartz, amethyst, agate, mother of pearl, shell, glazed frit, limestone (?), granite, hematite, crystal.
18269M	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: (A) [A and N] Pair of copper bracelets, penannular, square section with flattened papyrus ends. (B) Bangle of thin copper wire. (C) Copper fibula. [drawing] (D) Copper fibula thus [reference to drawing] pin missing. [drawing] (E) [E-O] 2 copper finger rings. (F) Bronze arrowhead, 3-flanged type. (G) Iron knife blade, straight and slender type. Broken. (H) Iron leaf-shaped blade, broken. (I) [I and P] [I] Bone spindle and [P] glazed whorl. (J) Shale amulet in form of bird. [drawing 1:1] (K) Beads: string of very small yellow glaze ring with 6 puzuzu heads of blue glazed frit and some black and white glass paste balls and one yellow pasted bead. (L) Beads: string of pink and white stone scaraboids, large shell disk, blue glaze puzuzu head, paste scaraboid, decorated, glass rings. (M) Beads: Stone beads, carnelian, sard, marble, limestone, rough.
2934	(none)	(none)	(none)	String of beads. Small lentoids of carnelian, rock crystal, granite, hematite, red jasper, sard, shell, copper, etc., with shell disc pendant. Together and re-strung arbitrarily.
7566	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Sard? Two registers. Inscribed Ur-sa(g)-ga; dumu.Ur-GAR-MUG. Portion of one end missing. Below spread eagle; above dragon?
7663	(none)	(none)	(none)	Flat seal. Sard, pale blue. Winged insect?