Calcite Group

The Calcite group is composed of minerals that have flat triangular shaped carbonate ions (CO₃). They have perfect cleavage and exhibit strong double refraction. Minerals in this group can partially or fully replace one another.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
17235	(none)	(none)	(none)	White calcite bowl. (fragment) Remains of the inscription of a king: (?-^dEN)ZU. HC.
17390	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. Calcite. White. Part missing. [drawing 2:5]
17408	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Glass paste. Copper. Sard. Calcite. Granite. For order see field note.
17832	(none)	1932,1008.32	(none)	Statuette of seated bull. White calcite. With square hole through the back to take an upright - The muzzle damaged by decay.
17833	(none)	(none)	(none)	Statuette of reclining dog (?). Calcite. Originally, colored bright red (some of color left) with eyes filled in with black. The beast has a ruff and a bushy tail. A hole is pierced from the top of the back to the stomach. On the under side a seal cutting (much perished) showing animals mostly cut with the drill.
17834	(none)	(none)	(none)	Figurine of seated calf. White calcite. Usual attitude, body in profile. Left hand turned over shoulder to face outwards.
17835A	32-40-308	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Two lion's heads. Silhouetted in profile. White calcite, originally painted red, but the color gone: both are really stamp seals with rough designs drill-cut on the flat lower surface. Both are pierced for suspension from the top of the head to the bottom of the mane. [drawing]
17835B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Two lion's heads. Silhouetted in profile. White calcite, originally painted red, but the color gone: both are really stamp seals with rough designs drill-cut on the flat lower surface. Both are pierced for suspension from the top of the head to the bottom of the mane. [drawing]
17836	(none)	(none)	(none)	Object. Of white calcite. Shaped like a cow-bell with two rings for suspension: in the holes were traces of what seemed to be reed or fiber
17837	(none)	(none)	(none)	Toilet vase. White calcite. Two small jars joined together each contains yellow pigment. [drawing]
17838	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Miniature. Type RC 113 new. [RC.67 variant crossed out] [drawing 1:1]
17841	(none)	(none)	(none)	Figurine? Of veined reddish calcite. (broken = and the surface badly decayed). Apparently a human figure very summarily represented with drilled eye-holes. [drawing 1:1]
17842C	(none)	1932,1008.6	(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.
17843	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. Fragment only with part of inscription thus [reference to drawing] [drawing]
17868	(none)	1932,1008.173	(none)	Cylinder seal. White limestone. Introduction scene with seated deity and 2 standing figures: poor work.
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.
17907	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 6 stalgmitic calcites, white and transluscent; lentoid.
17977	(none)	(none)	(none)	Inscribed fragment of jar. White calcite. [drawing 1:1]
18115	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 1 malachite cylinder, 2 white calcite rhomboids, 1 cylinder seal, grey steatite, much defaced, with seated goddess and 2 standing figures and traces of 2 columns of inscription: cylinders of shell, steatite, pine limestone, some originally with figures but all defaced, eliptical beads of white calcite, agate, biconvex rectangles, square section tubular red limestone, black stone discoid, carnelian date-shaped, glass ball, and one limestone disk with crudely incised design thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing]
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.
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.
18232	(none)	1933,1013.1	(none)	Stone vase. Fragments of stalagmitic calcite with deeply colored veining. Type. On it, part of an inscription.
18308	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase fragment. White calcite. Bowl, shallow with carinated rim. On the outside a panel, complete, with inscription. [drawing of cuneiform inscription] Rimush