Jasper
Jasper is an aggregate of microquartz and/or chalcedony and is an impur variety of silica. It is usually red, yellow, brown, or green in color and rarely blue. It breaks with a smooth surface and can be highly polished.
Jasper is an aggregate of microquartz and/or chalcedony and is an impur variety of silica. It is usually red, yellow, brown, or green in color and rarely blue. It breaks with a smooth surface and can be highly polished.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17056 | 31-43-159 | (none) | (none) | Beads. Amethyst oval, flat on our side, convex on the other. Quartz lentoids and double conoids. Jasper lentoid. Agate barrels and lentoids. Granite double conoid. Black steatite amulet, on oval shaped stamp seal with an animal figure engraved thereon surmounted by a squatting lion. Glass paste scaraboid bead. Carnelian double conoids. | |
 | 17061 | (none) | 1931,1010.243 | (none) | Beads. Carnelian balls, rings. Glass paste rings. 1 large jasper (?) lentoid. 1 hematite (?) Double conoid. |
| 17360 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Date stone. Jasper (?) Reddish. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17371 | (none) | 1931,1010.244 | (none) | Beads. Glass paste lentoids. Glass paste ring beads, small green.; Carnelian oval flat bead engraved thus: [reference to drawing]; Lapis lazuli ball bead. 1 jasper?; Double conoid. Dark green. 1 greenish quartzite double conoid. [drawing] |
| 17409 | (none) | 1931,1010.231 | (none) | Two bead. One carnelian ring bead. One reddish brown jasper thus: [reference to drawing] Tab anal. [drawing] |
| 17703 | 32-40-105 | (none) | (none) | Celt. Green jasper; banded. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17709 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Celt. Jasper; banded green. Bored. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17813E | 32-40-227 | (none) | (none) | Group. From one burial. (A) [A and K-L] 3 gold frontlets. (B) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (C) [C and M] Two gold hair-rings, spirally coiled with lunate ends, with one of them [N] a silver ring. (D) Beads: a string of very small fluted gold balls and carnelian balls and one very thin lapis bugle with gold caps. (E) Beads: gold balls, agate, carnelian, marble and jasper; long bugles, flattened lentoids, disks and lentoids. (F) [F and O] Two gold bracelets, of thin gold bent over copper wire. (G) Silver bracelet, plain wire. (H) [H and I] Copper bracelets, 2, plain wire. (J) Copper axe, thus: [reference to drawing] a copy of the old type but not cast: hammered and the socket made by bending. Type S10. [drawing] | |
| 17826 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Mixed: a long barrel of blue paste with gold caps, lentoids of carnelian, jasper, amazonite (?) and chrysoprase, crystal pendant and carnelian rings. Kassite. |
| 17929D | (none) | (none) | (none) | Celts. [Woolley did not assign subletters; they are assigned in this database based on the order of drawings on the card] [A] Schist [drawing 1:1] [B] Schist [drawing 1:1] [C] Shale [drawing 1:1] [D] Jasper [drawing 1:1] [drawing side view 1:1] [E] Diorite [drawing 1:1] [F] Diorite [drawing 1:1] [G] Diorite [drawing 1:1] [H] Schist [drawing 1:1] |
| 17935A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Celts. [All objects drawn, objects grouped by material description] [A-B] Jasper [drawing 1:1] [C-E] Diorite [drawing 1:1] [F] Basalt [drawing 1:1] [G] Limestone [drawing 1:1] |
| 17935B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Celts. [All objects drawn, objects grouped by material description] [A-B] Jasper [drawing 1:1] [C-E] Diorite [drawing 1:1] [F] Basalt [drawing 1:1] [G] Limestone [drawing 1:1] |
| 17943E | 32-40-113 | (none) | (none) | [One stone not listed as having material, possibly jasper or steatite] [Unclear which flints correspond with which museum numbers] Polished flints. [A-D] Diorite [E-G] Jasper [H-L] Basalt [M] Steatite [N] Quartzite [O] [Unspecified] [P-T] [Additional museum numbers: unspecified] |
| 17943F | 32-40-114 | (none) | (none) | [One stone not listed as having material, possibly jasper or steatite] [Unclear which flints correspond with which museum numbers] Polished flints. [A-D] Diorite [E-G] Jasper [H-L] Basalt [M] Steatite [N] Quartzite [O] [Unspecified] [P-T] [Additional museum numbers: unspecified] |
| 17943G | 32-40-115 | (none) | (none) | [One stone not listed as having material, possibly jasper or steatite] [Unclear which flints correspond with which museum numbers] Polished flints. [A-D] Diorite [E-G] Jasper [H-L] Basalt [M] Steatite [N] Quartzite [O] [Unspecified] [P-T] [Additional museum numbers: unspecified] |
| 17978 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ear stud. Jasper. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17979B | (none) | 1932,1008.76 | (none) | Polished celts [drawing] [7 in all A-G] [A] Diorite [B] Jasper [C-G] unspecified |
| 18120A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. Carnelian balls and rings and tubular steatite cylinders and date-shaped. Carnelian eliptical, calcite eliptical jasper (?) biconvex square, hematite pear pendant, flattened rough pebble pendant and a few large paste beads, much decayed also. [B] 1 very small gold lunate earring. [C-D] 2 small silver earrings and [drawing] [E-F] two plain silver rings. |
| 18121A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. Agate ball and carnelian balls and double conoids; chalcedony double conoid; lapis, jasper agate and carnelian date-shaped; jasper (?) double conoid; [B] amethyst scaraboid; [A] steatite flattened balls; glazed frit discoid; [C-D] 2 glazed frit thick discoids with criss-cross on one side: [E] small glazed scaraboid with bungled heiroglyphs: [F] pebble scaraboid. Roughly incised thus: [drawing] [G] carnelian domical ovoid roughly engraved with figure of deer (?); [H] small puzuzu head in turquoise: [I] chalcedony seal, with Persian figure of a man standing in prayer. [drawing] [J] Also: a copper fibula. [drawing] |
| 18131A.2 | 32-40-251 | (none) | (none) | [A.1-.3] Beads. A small collection. Hematite tubular and date shaped, carnelian balls and date shaped, jasper date shaped, glazed frit tubular, hematite rings, lapis date shaped. Also, a [B] black steatite duck-weight pierced for suspension and a [C] small shell lion also pierced. |
| 18131A.3 | 32-40-252 | (none) | (none) | [A.1-.3] Beads. A small collection. Hematite tubular and date shaped, carnelian balls and date shaped, jasper date shaped, glazed frit tubular, hematite rings, lapis date shaped. Also, a [B] black steatite duck-weight pierced for suspension and a [C] small shell lion also pierced. |
| 18142A | (none) | 1932,1008.134 | (none) | Beads. A collection of mixed stone beads. The majority of stalagmite calcite, plain milky calcite, black and white granite, marble, steatite, pink limestone, jasper etc. ? Third dynasty. |
| 18142B | (none) | 1932,1008.136 | (none) | Beads. A collection of mixed stone beads. The majority of stalagmite calcite, plain milky calcite, black and white granite, marble, steatite, pink limestone, jasper etc. ? Third dynasty. |
| 18142C | 32-40-260 | (none) | (none) | Beads. A collection of mixed stone beads. The majority of stalagmite calcite, plain milky calcite, black and white granite, marble, steatite, pink limestone, jasper etc. ? Third dynasty. |
| 18144A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. A mixed lot. Carnelian, agate, jasper, marble hematite lapis and agate. Mixed shapes: one double tubular; date stamped, tubular, rings etc. Also, a spindle whorl of grey steatite. |
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Agate - Carnelian - Chrysoprase - Sard
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