Rock Crystal
Rock crystal is another name for Quartz, and is colorless, has little to no clevage, and has a silicon-oxygen framework.
Rock crystal is another name for Quartz, and is colorless, has little to no clevage, and has a silicon-oxygen framework.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 2937D.1 | (none) | 1927,1003.209 | (none) | Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card] |
| 2937D.5 | (none) | 1927,1003.213 | (none) | Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card] |
| 2937D.7 | (none) | 1927,1003.215 | (none) | Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card] |
| 2937D.9 | (none) | 1927,1003.217 | (none) | Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card] |
| 2937D.10 | (none) | 1927,1003.218 | (none) | Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card] |
| 2937D.11 | (none) | 1927,1003.219 | (none) | Necklace [D] including 15 beads carnelian-1 glass- 1 pebble- 3 crystal- 2 paste- 2 sard-and [A-C]three cylinder seals. (A) Red marble Assyrian influence about BC 700. (B) Hematite: Sun god rising sword in hand on mountain-3 lines inscription worn out-BC 2000. (C) Limestone [Drawing]. [E Tablet according to British Museum. Not attested on field card] |
| 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 |
| 3126 | (none) | 1927,1003.239 | (none) | Miniature frog. Crystal, left back leg missing. |
| 14983 | 31-16-512 | (none) | (none) | Long-shanked stud(?) or nail. White obsidian. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17768 | 32-40-311 | (none) | (none) | Imitation knuckle bone. Rock crystal. [drawing] |
| 17807B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Groups. From one burial. (A) [A and G] Gold earrings, each made of two complete earrings, intertwined, of the small hollow lunate type. (B) Beads: very small gold tubes and very small agate bugles strung alternately, gold and carnelian diamonds strung alternately. 2 lapis bugles, 3 agate bugles (one very long), a cat's eye and a crystal lentoid. (C) Twisted gold hair-ribbon much broken. (D) Gold frontlet, plain oval. (E) Gold finger ring, plain hoop of wire. (F) Gold finger ring , thin metal bent over to form a ribbed hoop. |
| 16927D | (none) | 1931,1010.232 | (none) | Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering] |
| 17801E | (none) | 1932,1008.123 | (none) | Group: From one grave. (A) [A and D] 2 gold earrings, small hollow lunette type. (B) [B and E based on museum divisions] Beads: lentoids, bugles, flattened lentoids of barrels of crystal, agate, marble, lapis, carnelian, and a cat's eye: also, probably from a separate string, small balls of carnelian and of copper plated with gold foil - the latter mostly perished. (C) [C and F] 2 plain copper bangles, one broken. |
| 17801B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: From one grave. (A) [A and D] 2 gold earrings, small hollow lunette type. (B) [B and E based on museum divisions] Beads: lentoids, bugles, flattened lentoids of barrels of crystal, agate, marble, lapis, carnelian, and a cat's eye: also, probably from a separate string, small balls of carnelian and of copper plated with gold foil - the latter mostly perished. (C) [C and F] 2 plain copper bangles, one broken. |
| 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. |
| 18943E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) Gold earring, small lunate type. (B) Silver finger ring, plain wire hoop. (C) Silver hair ring, 2 coils of plain wire. (D) Gold twisted ribbon fillet, with hole at each end. (E) Beads: lapis diamonds and tubes, crystal rings, silver diamonds and balls and small blue glaze cylinders. (F) Copper pin, type 8. (G) Copper reticule. |
| 18694F | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group: (A) Copper bowl, in good condition, plain. [drawing] (B) Iron dagger blade, long leaf-shaped. (C) Iron knife-blade, broken in 3 pieces. [drawing] (D) Copper ball pendant, (E) 3 hair (?) rings of copper wire [E, G-H]. (F) Beads: carnelian, lapis paste, marble, pebble, limestone, crystal, steatite, frit: rings, balls, date shaped, cylindrical and a few small shaped types, axes, flies, etc. |
| 6752 | (none) | (none) | B16283 | Cylinder seal. White crystal. Plain. E. | |
| 7953 | (none) | 1928,1009.12 | (none) | Cylinder seal. White crystal, with copper caps; carinated. Two Gilgamesh figures each fighting a lion. Large cylinder, well cut. The central hole is filled with white paste having chevron bands of bright red which shows through the crystal. Inscribed. |
| 7581 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Rock crystal. White. 9 fish. c.-3000BC? |
| 12086 | (none) | 1929,1017.379 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Rock crystal. Hero fighting rampant lion; repeated twice. White paste core run down centre of seal. |
| 6753 | (none) | 1927,0527.175 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Quartz. Violet? Color. Plain. E. |
| 11473 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Of rock crystal. Unfinished. 3 figures, 1 seated, 2 standing, have been roughly ground out all but the heads: no engraving as yet, but grinding only. The cylinder is bored and in the bore-hole ridges have been worked to take colored paste. |
| 18457 | 33-35-178 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Milky crystal. Geometrical (?) designs in 2 registers. |
| 8714 | (none) | (none) | B17033 | Cylinder seal. Crystal. Two registers. Above: Male figure approaching from behind a lion? in front of the lion a fallen gazelle and in front of the gazelle a winged dragon. Below: A winged dragon, and second similar? and a rampant gazelle? |
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