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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)
11211 (none) (none) B17599 Beads. (7). 1 Flattened steatite double conoid-grey. 1 carnelian double conoid. 1 black steatite bead with incised markings; shaped like a truncated cone. 2 carnelian ring beads. 1 gold ring bead. 1 grey steatite bead square in section - tubular. [drawing 1:1]
10508 (none) (none) B17307 Stone bowl Steatite grey Broken & mended Parts of rim & side missing [drawing] 1:5 Type LI
10399 (none) (none) B17183 Steatite Bowl Rim chipped Roughly worked Type XVIII
10523 (none) (none) B17168 Stone bowl Steatite Dark grey Decorates with minute triangle in relief set in 11 diamond shaped reserves with run round the entire circumference single lines of combed decoration below rim and above base Bowl stood on a baked clay ring base. q.v. U.10,524 complete but part of rim broken. [drawing] 2:5 Type CX
8764 (none) (none) B17161 Bowl. Steatite. Dark green. Stone type LXII.
10526 (none) (none) B17154 Stone Vase soapstone? Dark grey Part of rim missing [drawing] type CXII
10063 (none) (none) B17153 Steatite bowl Dark greenish grey Bell-shaped All the top badly broken but complete Type__
10481 (none) (none) B17152 Stone Bowl steatite grey Bell shaped Broken and mended. Small piece missing from rim and side Type LXVI
9721 (none) (none) B17024 Cylinder seal Haematite Black Copper caps. This seal adhered to copper pin U.9720 Two seated deities, facing on another, from the first a stream of water trickles from the out-stretched left hand; above, crescent moon; second deity holds a cup? in right hand; above him the sun; and third standing deity? faces him. Behind the first deity a standing attendant.
9513 (none) (none) B16941 Cylinder seal Dark green steatite The eagle grasping 2 stags
9634 (none) (none) B16935 Cylinder Seal Dark steatite 2 heroes fighting lions
7525 (none) (none) B16901 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. 3 figures obliterated. Presentation scene before seated god bearing staff in left hand. IIIrd Dyn. of Ur. [drawing of scene]
7920 (none) (none) B16900 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Scene of worship before Nannar. Enthronoed Nannar wearing horned headdress extends right hand to greet 2 standing gods also wearing horned headdress and with left arm upraised. Attributes: crescent moon and spear? with a shaped top.
8476 (none) (none) B16887 Cylinder seal Steatite Black Inscribed but illegible. Two heroes attacking a rampant lion. One grasps him by the tail, the other attacks from the front.
7556 (none) (none) B16886, B16886 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Inscribed: practically illegible? Scene of worship: Minor deity introducing worshipper to Nannar before whom stands the crescent moon on a staff.
7894 (none) (none) B16881 Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Scene of worship. Votary led by the hands by minor deity towards seated Nannar. Nannar and minor deity wear flounced kaunakes skirt and low head dress. Votary shaven and shorn wearing long skirt fringed in front. Behind votary a rampant lion between 4 vertical lines, which may represent the doors of a shrine? Attributes: crescent moons one against the other as on the burnt bricks of Sin-Iddinam.
7989 (none) (none) B16864 Cylinder seal. Black steatite with silver caps. Subject Gilgamesh and Eabana fighting bulls. (N.B.) part of the linen thread was preserved in the hole)
8991 (none) (none) B16859A Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark grey mottled. Scene: Gilgamesh, Eabani, lion and bull.
(none) (none) (none) B16859a Unknown
9652 (none) (none) B16857 Cylinder seal Dark steatite A hero fighting a bull (or wild oryx)? and a lion and a bull fighting.
7590 (none) (none) B16762 Boar? Miniature. Steatite. Black. End missing. Head naturalistic, body peg shaped, flattened base with incisions in form of a + and x. Body divided into 3 distinctive sections, middle section having rounded base. 2 round cavities for eyes. 3 similar cavities on one side of body, 2 on the other and 3 on base. [drawing 1:1]
8914 (none) (none) B16748 (none)
6896 (none) (none) B16368 Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Subject obliterated. Linear figures. B.
6906 (none) (none) B16363 Frog bead. Black steatite. E.
6550 (none) (none) B16352 Domino or Inlay? Black steatite square, one face like 5 of domino. E. [drawing 1:1]

Related Terms

Marble - Quartzite - Schist - Slate

Child Terms

Soapstone - Steatite