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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 14335 | (none) | 1930,1213.92 | (none) | Necklace. Glazed frit(?) fluted double conoids; 1 lapis lazuli double conoid; 1 rock crystal cylindrical; 1 carnelian ring bead. |
| 14477 | (none) | 1930,1213.513 | (none) | Crystal pendant. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14983 | 31-16-512 | (none) | (none) | Long-shanked stud(?) or nail. White obsidian. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15164 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper object. A circular plate with a short flat handle - possibly a mirror(?) Embedded in crystals which must be removed before cleaning. [drawing 1:5] |
| 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. |
| 15462 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: carnelian double conoids & cylindrical; lapis lazuli cylindrical; 2 gold balls; 1 rock crystal ball; 1 silver decorated head. [drawing] TA |
| 16141C | 31-43-136 | (none) | (none) | Amulets. Frit. [A-B] A Pair. Miniature clenched fists perforated for suspension. [From Typed Transcript Only] [C] Necklace: Carnelian, lapis, bone, rock crystal, agate, amethyst. [D] Gold finger ring and [E] bone. [F] copper finger ring |
| 16205 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: Dark steatite scaraboid, on the base a scorpion roughly drawn. Glazed scarab (glaze gone); and some glazed lentoid beads, one of pink pebble, one crystal bead & a big hematite ball bead. [drawing] |
| 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. |
| 16692 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian rings and lozenges; glass paste rings and balls; rock crystal flattened lentoid. |
| 16743 | 31-43-46 | (none) | (none) | Quartz cylinder. Unengraved. Unpierced. cf. U. 16606. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 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] |
| 17375 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bracelet. Copper ring beads and double conoids with ridged ends. Carnelian balls, ring beads, double conoids, rock crystal scaraboid. Hematite (?) (?) Barrel. Rock crystal ball bead. 5 greenish glass paste scaraboids one with quasi hieroglyphic signs other with criss cross pattern, star and conventionalized tree. For order see field notet. Also hematite pendant oval, flat, crescent moon and 2 gazelles, mother giving such to young. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17394 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Glass paste. 14 puzuzu heads. 9 scaraboids. Some with quasi hieroglyphs and criss cross pattern. Rings, balls, disks, barrels with small globulear beads on the body, green, blue, yellow and horizontal. 1 tet pillar. 1 rock crystal scaraboid. 2 lapis lazuli double conoid, and lentoid. 1 hematite (?) scaraboid. |
| 17646 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads about 70 of rock crystal, agate, carnelian, steatite and granite (?). With them, an object in white limestone a disk (badly chipped) pierced in the center, flat and with slight mushroom stem and a second hole in the flat part. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17768 | 32-40-311 | (none) | (none) | Imitation knuckle bone. Rock crystal. [drawing] |
| 17798 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 1 bugle carnelian. 1 bleached carnelian. 2 lentoid carnelian. 2 ball carnelian. 2 flat lentoid crystal. A necklace composed of 9 diamond carnelian, 11 lentoid carnelian, 14 gold lentoid. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 17808A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. (A) Small gold balls, large agate square, chalcedony square, agate, carnelian and lapis lentoids, crystal ball. (B) [B and C] Copper bracelets, a pair, made of copper tubing = a simple hoop, penannular (one broken and mended). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 18151 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Crystal. Rough engraving. Introduction scene with standing god, worshipper and second god and a survivor. |
| 18252.1 | (none) | 1933,1013.155 | (none) | [.1-.2] Beads. A mixed lot of carnelian balls, cylinder and facetted date shaped: steatite cylinders, crystal rings, yellow glaze strip, green glaze tubular, yellow glaze hub type, green glaze scaraboid, poopy seed pendant (carnelian) glass paste balls etc. |
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