Semi-precious

The term “semi precious” is applied to a subset gemstones, and the term was created to set them apart from what are considered precious stones (diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and emeralds). Things like amber and lapis lazuli, which are not really stones at all are still considered “semi precious” by most people. This distinction reflects the rarity of the respective stones in ancient times, as well as their quality. all are translucent with fine color in their purest forms and very hard. This distinction is not related to their monetary value, i.e. some forms of garnet are more expensive than emeralds.

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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)
18983	(none)	1935,0112.37	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis. Two registers: above, banquet scene with two seated figures drinking through tubes; below, birds?
18986	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two registers: above, standing figures; below animals.
18990	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: one very long carnelian tubular, carnelian date-shaped and rings, lapis balls, chalcedony barrel. crystal ring.
18994	35-1-14	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two hunters fighting a lion.
18995	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: large chalcedony date-shaped, chalcedony balls, granite flattened date-shaped, limestone ditto, crystal ditto, crystal, carnelian and chalcedony balls, silver balls.
18997	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: large lapis double conoid, flattened oval, chalcedony, crystal rings.
19000	(none)	1935,0112.47	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two hunters fighting animals.
19005	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Hunter fighting animals.
19012	35-1-97	(none)	(none)	Beads: lapis lazuli double conoids (gradated sizes).
19014	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: Small lapis tubes and balls and one rectangular with convex sides.
19021	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: flattened oval agate, lapis tubes and double concoid, crystal balls, carnelian date-shaped and carnelian ball with bleached concentric circles.
19026A	35-1-99A	(none)	(none)	[A] Beads: a mixed lot: 1 gold double conoid; 2 lapis ditto; 2 carnelian barrels; smaller paste double conoids; paste and lapis rings or small balls. [B.1-.2] Also two silver earrings.
19027	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: lapis double conoids and ovals; 1 large lapis date-shaped; carnelian rings.
19030	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian tubes and date-shaped; 1 lapis double conid; small carnelian rings; paste balls and some silver.
19035	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: small lapis barrels, balls, and double conoids; carnelian rings, barrels and tubes, two of the latter with white bleached patterns of concentric circles.
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.
19039	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian cylinders and one double conoid, ball and rings; paste tube and balls, silver balls, etc.
19044	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian date-shaped (4) and very small tubes and rings of paste and lapis(?)
19047	35-1-92	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian large date-shaped (broken) and rings; steatite barrel; agate tubular; small paste tubes and date-shaped; and 3 frog amulets, steatite. (22 in all).
19051	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: two or three carnelian barrels; lapis tubes, 4 small balls or barrels; and small rings of glazed frit; three lapis frog amulets.
19053B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads; (A) A set of lapis triangular spacers from a small dog-collar (silver spacers decayed); (B) A long string of carnelian and lapis beads (and some silver) balls, tubes and rings.
19054	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian rings and truncated triangles and one diamond: lapis diamonds and balls: paste long date-shaped.
19055	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian rings, cylindrical and balls and double conoids: lapis balls, ovals, and double conoids: ribbed paste: steatite frog amulet, and mother-of-pearl bird amulet [drawing 1:1]
19056	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads: carnelian balls and long dated-shaped and cylindrical; lapis ovals and cylinders; shell date-shaped; jasper date-shaped and paste ditto, and paste rings; steatite frog amulets.
19072	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Two registers: above, a banquet scene; below, eagle grasping 2 gazelles.