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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7924 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead Crystal Cylindrical with truncated conical top. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7927 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Crystal. Slightly concave. Marble? core within roughly 8mm in diameter. Inscribed. Conical copper cap on one end. Bearded hero with protruding hair locks, mounted on dragon and clutching it by the tail. The dragon faces a bull rampant, head upraised, mounted by bearded hero similar to first also holding hismount by the tail. Between a couchant gazelle. |
| 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. |
| 8264 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace. 40 blue glazed ring beads. 1 lentoid carnelian. 1 double conoid gold bead. 1 rock crystal ring bead. |
| 8670 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Crystal, gold plated, lapis and carnelian, and one agate with gold caps. See field notes. |
| 8957 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. A small mixed set: 1 gold over copper, 1 onyx, 2 crystal, and some lapis, and carnelian (child's necklace) |
| 9153 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads & Seal 1 very long carnelian bugle, i ditto. green jasper, 2 crystal rings and 2 gold balls: on the end a silver button seal with engraved face: subject not decipherable. [drawing] |
| 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. |
| 9679 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Rock crystal with gold ends: 2 heroes fighting a lion and a bull: between the animals a small winged god: between the men an inscription, effaced: below which a small figure, seated. The central hole is filled with red and white paste in horizontal bands. |
| 9704B | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 Strings of beads. (a) Long double conoid lapis beads; 1 carnelian ditto; 1 chrysoprase? [not legible] ditto; 4 tubular agate beads; silver ball beads. (for order of stringing see Field Note) (b) 12 gold tubular beads; 8 gold diamonds; 7 carnelian diamonds; 1 banded crystal tube; 9 lapis tubes; 4 carnelian tubes; decayed silver diamonds and double conoids. (for order see Field Notes) |
| 9752 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads Balls of gold-plating over copper, rock crystal rings, 1 lapis lentoid with gold caps, originally bound with a spiral or silver wire, 1 carnelian lentoid (see Field Notes) |
| 9769 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Reticule Copper with gold rim band Complete except for ring |
| 9825 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace. 3 strings of beads. For order see Field Notes. Gold ball, bugle, diamond beads; lapis bugle and ball beads; crystal ring beads and diamond beads; agate flattened double conoid with gold caps; carnelian diamond beads. |
| 10304 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 6 Beads Two carnelian bugles, & 4 crystal ring beads - strung alternatively. |
| 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 |
| 11117 | (none) | 1928,1010.682 | (none) | Necklace. Lapis bugles and ring beads, crystal ring beads, all small sized. One gold bead found in position between 2 crystal rings, but general order was not discoverable. A few beads also found in this order: 1 crystal ring, 2 minute lapis balls, 1 gold ball, 1 crystal ring bead, 2 lapis balls, 1 gold ball, 1 lapis bugle. |
| 11204 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. (7). Large lapis double conoid; oolite? barrel bead; 2 gold ring beads; 2 carnelian ball beads; 1 rock crystal double conoid. |
| 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. |
| 11892 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Very slender bugles, 3 of lapis, 3 of gold, & a pear-shaped rock crystal pendant. |
| 12086 | (none) | 1929,1017.379 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Rock crystal. Hero fighting rampant lion; repeated twice. White paste core run down centre of seal. |
| 12631 | (none) | 1929,1017.326 | (none) | [A] Beads. A motley collection including: rock crystal balls, hematite balls, shell and (Chrysoprase?) [chalcedony] bugles (broken), [B.1-.3] 2 unpierced steatite cylinders (for seals). 1 - unpierced marble cylinder (ditto) and [C] fragment of an obsidian mace head. (truncated pear shaped). |
| 12668 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead. Rock crystal. Lentoid. Paste tube through center. [drawing] |
| 13550 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 5 beads: 1 lapis double conoid; 1 carnleian barrel; 1 carnelian ring; 1 rock crystal ring; 1 copper double conoid. |
| 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. | |
| 14073 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: a few lapis double conoids; carnelian ring beads and a pear-shaped rock crystal pendant. |
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