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

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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)
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?
8686 (none) (none) (none) Beads. A mixed lot of lapis, carnelian, steatite, sard, etc. from a single string.
9089 (none) (none) (none) Necklace About 85 beads Silver & lapis lozenge shaped beads, slightly convex: 1 banded sard, lapis barrel & double conoid, & carnelian of similar type. Also, 2 carnelian bugle beads For order of stringing cf. Field Note PG 544 (18)
9201 (none) (none) (none) Necklace Silver double conoids and carnelian ring beads alternately, also, a few carnelian beads. In the middle a banded sard. 38 beads in all
9244 (none) (none) (none) Beads 8 lapis double conoids 3 lapis bugles 2 carnelian bugles 2 banded sard bugles 1 gold double conoid
9545 (none) (none) (none) Necklace 40 silver ball beads, many corroded together; 1 gold double conoid; 1 banded sard; 3 lapis (2 ball beads, 1 double conoid)
9561A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Necklaces. 2. Found in original order. (A) Middle of string in front, 1 silver flattened conoid, 1 double conoid rock crystal; 1 copper ball bead, 1 lentoid jasper, 1 copper ball bead; 1 banded sard; 1 copper ball bead; 1 banded sard, 1 copper ball bead. Rest of string composed of flattened silver double conoids. (B) String of lapis lazuli double axe and ball beads.
9607 (none) (none) B17625 Necklace 9 diamond shaped gold beads; gold ball beads; carnelian ball beads; ring beads; double conoids; and double axe shaped. A few lapis and 1 banded sard lentoid. For order of stringing see Field Notes. About 150 in all.
9855 (none) (none) (none) 4 Beads. 3 Carnelians and few specifimens of decayed wooden beads - 1 banded sard. String in following order: carnelian barrel, wooden double conoid, banded sard barrel.
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]
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.
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Agate - Carnelian - Chrysoprase - Jasper