Granite

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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)
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.
16226	31-43-296	(none)	(none)	Arrowhead, stone. Grey granite(?) [drawing 1:1]
17056	31-43-159	(none)	(none)	Beads. Amethyst oval, flat on our side, convex on the other. Quartz lentoids and double conoids. Jasper lentoid. Agate barrels and lentoids. Granite double conoid. Black steatite amulet, on oval shaped stamp seal with an animal figure engraved thereon surmounted by a squatting lion. Glass paste scaraboid bead. Carnelian double conoids.
16697	31-43-147	(none)	(none)	Beads: Mostly lentoids. Jasper, carnelian, granite, agate, sard, lapis, quartz. A few carnelian balls and double conoids.
23	(none)	(none)	(none)	Milk-stone? Roughly tooth-shaped (or celt shaped) of mottled black and white granite pierced. [drawing 1:1]
194	(none)	(none)	B14960	Granite pick-head. Broken. Ceremonial votive offering. [drawing].
195	(none)	1923,1110.49	(none)	Granite pick-head. Broken. Ceremonial or votive offering. [drawing]
196	(none)	(none)	B14962	Stone hammer-head. Fr of Probably part of ceremonial or votive object. [drawing] 3rd Dynasty Uruk-Kuri-Galzu floor of E-nun-mah
914	(none)	1923,1110.59	(none)	Stone vase. Fragment of straight-sided deep bowl of granite.
2590	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Granite. Type VI.
6355	(none)	1927,0527.26	(none)	Black and white granite cup of Naram-Sin. "King of the 4 corners of the world" Broken. A second inscription was added afterwards -"Shulgi mighty king, King of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world. Me dEn-lil his daughter." E
7508	(none)	(none)	B17101	Weight. Lentoid. Granite. Seven incised marks on the surface IIII III Type II
7516	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mace head. Granite. [drawing cut out, only label 1:1 still visible] Found with U7518 glass cylinder seal. Found with U7517 and clay written impression
9178	(none)	(none)	(none)	[CARD MISSING] Cylinder seal. Black and white granite. With copper caps. Large and fine, with inscription of the steward (?) of Sargon's daughter.
16144	(none)	(none)	(none)	Granite pestle(?) Truncated cone with lugs at side. [drawing]
16421C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight Mottled granite. Ovoid. Single stroke incised on one side. To be weighedType I.
16422W	(none)	(none)	(none)	Weight Granite (?). Bugle [crossed out] cylindrical. Mottled black and white. Weight 2.56 grs. 1 Minette (nominally 2.805). Type III.
16710A	(none)	1931,1010.255	(none)	Beads: 401 in all. Jasper, quartz, lapis lazuli, carnelian, agate, cats eye, breccia, granite, amethyst, copper, and various mottled stones, reddish brown, grey, etc. 1 gold double conoid; order not know. Mostly lentoids. Also barrels, rings, double conoids, balls.
17045	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Agate large cylindrical and lentoid. Granite lentoid. Carnelian discoids, balls, rings. Glass paste balls, rings, double conoids.
17408	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Glass paste. Copper. Sard. Calcite. Granite. For order see field note.
17646	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads about 70 of rock crystal, agate, carnelian, steatite and granite (?). With them, an object in white limestone a disk (badly chipped) pierced in the center, flat and with slight mushroom stem and a second hole in the flat part. [drawing 1:1]
17829	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stela of black, white and red granite ? Oval-hipped = in section a rectangle with convex sides. On the face, a figure of a seated deity left with attendant standing behind and holding a staff. On the back, inscription in large coarse characters. On each narrow side a standing human figure. Figures and inscription have been done by rubbing not cutting the stone and are very summary and crude: the surface of the stone is damaged and much of the work is very hard to make out and part of the inscription seems to be deliberately effaced. Drawing HC.
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.
17908	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 3 flat barrel agates; 1 flat barrel blue granite; 1/2 flat lentoid marble.
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.