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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)
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.
18144A (none) (none) (none) Beads. A mixed lot. Carnelian, agate, jasper, marble hematite lapis and agate. Mixed shapes: one double tubular; date stamped, tubular, rings etc. Also, a spindle whorl of grey steatite.
18145 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Introduction scene with seated goddess and 1 standing figure and a tree: star and crescent above.
18146 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Two registers. Introduction scene, above, with seated goddess and 2 standing figures. Below, swans.
18156 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black diorite. Seated god: before him an altar with 2 worshippers and a lute.
18183 (none) 1932,1008.163 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. A standing god, a worshipper at a shrine (?) and 2 columns of inscription. Badly cut and much worn.
18184 (none) 1932,1008.164 (none) Cylinder seal. Light steatite. 2 trees (?) and a standard (?) rude early cutting: much worn.
18190 (none) 1932,1008.179 (none) Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Square pyramidal design, a spread eagle.
18192 (none) 1932,1008.158 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Introduction scene, 3 standing figures. Poor rough work.
18193 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Half of. Dark steatite. Standing figure of a god, and a column of inscription.
18194 (none) (none) (none) Spindle whorl of dark steatite. With slashed pattern thus [reference to drawing] [drawing 1:1]
18210 (none) (none) (none) Vulture's head. Mottled dark steatite. The eyes deeply hollowed to receive inlay. The lower side of the head is smoothly finished, with no sign of any attachment to a body: the head might have been used for a weight (?) or, is isolated, as an amulet. Fine bold work.
18219 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Scene of worship with one seated and one standing figure, and a tree.
18233 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal, black steatite. Much damaged: two heroes fighting an animal.
18245 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Dark grey steatite. Puzuzu head. Good minute work.
18249 (none) (none) (none) Stamp of dark steatite. Perhaps a jeweller's die. A god standing on the back of a lion. [drawing 1:1]
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.
18281 (none) 1933,1013.81 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steaitte. Star and crascent on staff above altar: naked goddess standing full face: worshipper with basket facing a standing god who rests his foot on a lion (?). Poor work.
18282 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark greenish grey steatite. A naked hunter with 2 lions heraldically crossed and rampant. Rather poor archaic work.
18283 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. A god and a worshipper, standing and 2 columns of inscription.
18291 (none) (none) (none) Amulet. Translucent green steatite.
18293 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Eagle (?) with outspread wings, in angles of fretted zigzag.
18312 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of stone vase. Bowl: dark steatite. Plain band at rim = the rest of the outside carved with scale pattern thus[reference to drawing], the scales originally filled in. With scales of white shell of which the centers were of another material.
18313A (none) (none) (none) Inlay. Fragments of grey steatite. Hair of head or beard from a large figure. [drawing] [A] One large piece thus [reference to drawing]. [B] One fragment from the upper part perhaps fitting on, [C] and one single curl
18314A (none) 1933,1013.99 (none) Inlay. 2 fragments of, fitting together. Grey steatite. The hair of a large figure, carved in horizontal ripples with the single hairs denoted by roughly engraved wavy lines. [drawing]

Related Terms

Marble - Quartzite - Schist - Slate

Child Terms

Soapstone - Steatite