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)
19021 (none) (none) (none) Beads: flattened oval agate, lapis tubes and double concoid, crystal balls, carnelian date-shaped and carnelian ball with bleached concentric circles.
19122 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Crystal. Two registers: above, banquet scene; below, animals.
19235 35-1-68 (none) (none) Beads. Four shell tubes (one borken); four carnelian and four crystal rings.
19240 (none) (none) (none) Beads. One carnelian tube, one crystal pear pendant, small paste ringed tubes, lapis ovals.
19489 (none) (none) (none) Beads. mixed; carnelian balls, rings and tubes, puzuzu heads in frit and 1 in lapis paste, an archaic white calcite convex circular seal, a celt pierced for suspension, agate disk, large, with some steatite, crystal and other beads.
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.
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.
6069B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 rock crystal? pendants. One to E. [drawing 1:1]
6258E (none) (none) (none) (A) 1 black stone loom weight (B) 1 black flaked stone fragmentary (C) [C.1-.3] 3 fragments of solid copper from from 10mm to 20mm in thickness. (D) 1 square stone weight rounded at corners. (E-F) 2 broken crystal beads [drawing]
6258F (none) (none) (none) (A) 1 black stone loom weight (B) 1 black flaked stone fragmentary (C) [C.1-.3] 3 fragments of solid copper from from 10mm to 20mm in thickness. (D) 1 square stone weight rounded at corners. (E-F) 2 broken crystal beads [drawing]
17842K 32-40-242 (none) (none) Beads. A mixed lot. 192 carnelian bugles. 56 carnelian double conoids, lentoids and barrels. 11 large carnelian double conoids and facetted lentoids. 421 carnelian rings. 81 larger carnelian rings. 41 glazed frit balls. 43 lapis lazuli, rings, bugles, ovoids, small mixed beads, apatite (?) quartzite, shell, agate and crystal.
6543B (none) (none) (none) [A] Clay bowl. Reddish. Mishapen. Type. [B] Found with wooden inlay fragments, agate, carnelian and crystal beads
6468 (none) 1927,0527.144 (none) Pendant, in shape of duck? Pierced for suspension. ? A lion's claw. E. [drawing 1:1]
6753 (none) 1927,0527.175 (none) Cylinder seal. Quartz. Violet? Color. Plain. E.
2714 (none) 1927,1003.205 (none) Seal cylinder. Rock crystal. Broken. Unusual scene. About BC 2300. [drawing]
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]
3126 (none) 1927,1003.239 (none) Miniature frog. Crystal, left back leg missing.
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.
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.
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).
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