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)
18593	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone cup. Translucent white calcite with simple lip. [Type] 64. [drawing]
18672	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. Transluscent white calcite. [Type] 59. [drawing]
18677	33-35-110	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. Translucent white calcite. Badly smashed and surface decayed. Much distorted. [Type] JN4. [drawing]
18807	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl, fragment of. White calcite. With 10 columns of inscription damaged and incomplete. Inscription of Shul-gi (Dungi)
18945	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White calcite. Broken and rivetted in antiquity, a small piece missing. Type 54.
18956	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 80.
18957	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 80.
18959	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Most of rim missing. Type 78, a roughly made and rather angular variant.
18992	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White calcite. Type _. [drawing] RC.109.
18993	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Surface badly decayed and part of the rim missing. Type 5.
19009	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 92 v.
19010	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Situla type.
19011	35-1-191	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White calcite. Type 54.
19015	35-1-199	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. In poor condition. Type 5.
19017	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone bowl. White calcite. Broken.
19037	(none)	(none)	(none)	Statuette. White calcite. Of a woman, standing with hands clasped on her breast, wearing the kaukanes. The figure is carved in the round but the back is almost flat and the back of the head, which is missing, seems to have been added in plaster: it is carved from a slab of stone the back of which is the back of the statute. The eyes are inlaid with shell and lapis lazuli, and a strip of lapis lazuli forms the fillet across the forehead and down each side of the face: the eyebrows were in black paste (which came away in powder with the dirt) and there was black paint on the hair and in the grooves of the kaukanes: none of this could be preserved. The left side is stained green by the corrosion of the axe which lay against it. The stone is decayed in places and has run in blisters which interfere with the modelling of the face (right side) , right arm and hair. Some of the lapis inlay had been lost in antiquity. The figure is made in two pieces morticed together.
19042	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone saucer. White calcite. Type _.
19049	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. The lower part of the surface decayed. Type 61a.
19059	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 4.
19060	35-1-198	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 62.
19062	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 60 B.
19063	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 60B.
19064	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 3.
19065	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Type 65 variant (rounded base, and proportions more slender).
19066	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White calcite. Situla. Type _.