Whetstones

This category includes stones that are used for sharpening blades.

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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)
8035	(none)	(none)	B17096	Brown whetstone. [drawing 1:1]
11947D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Tools. (A) Flat trowel-shaped blade with long handle. [Drawing] (B-C) with this two awls (D) Square whetstone with hole in one corner.
11724B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Tools. [A] A trowel-like instrument, flat bladed; lying symmetrically on the blade & oxidized on to it are 3 small tools. [B] With these a whetstone, a flat pebble circular in shape, drilled at one corner for suspension and inscribed.
12256F	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Wreath of 16 gold beech leaves on lapis & carnelian strings. [B] (2) Frontlet of gold, lentoid shaped, rosette decoration on long gold wire ties, looped one end, the other end consists of a carnelian ring bead the wire being coiled to prevent it from falling off. Frontlet is bent double. [C] (3) Gold coil earring. 2 1/2 coils. [D] (4) Gold coil earring. 1 1/2 coils. [E-F] (5) 2 gold chains. Double twisted links giving a square section. Strung with 1 gold facetted lentoid & 2 lapis ditto.with carnelian ring beads in between. [G] (6) Whetstone. [H] (7) Silver pin with lapis ball head & gold cap, straight, circular in section. [I] (8) Beads. Large carnelian bugles and small lapis double conoids & 1 jasper bugle; flattened carnelian double conoids & flattened rectangular lapis beads one with a rib down middle. [J] (9) Copper Axe. Type XIX. [K](10) Bowl. White calcite. [Type IX] [drawing] [L](11) Stone bowl. White calcite. [M] (12) Ostrich shell badly broken. Traces of red paint. [N] (13) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli 2 registers: above, banquet scene; below, men fighting crossed animals- -lions.
513	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone plummet. Coarse. Limestone. [drawing 1:1]
10812B	(none)	(none)	B17092	Tomb Group A/ Copper dagger, flat leaf-shaped type B/ Whetstone of dark grey stone octagonal section C/ Copper Toilet set, tweezers and stiletto (imperfect)
12432A	30-12-594	(none)	(none)	Tomb groups. With bodies. [Numbered entries refer to bodies, not all bodies associated with objects.] --No. 3: [A] Whetstone. --No. 11: [B] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [C] Lapis and silver lentoid and bugle beads. --No. 13: [D] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [E] Facetted lapis bugles and some silver lentoid beads. --No. 14: [F-G] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings . [H] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 15: [I] Double conoid lapis beads. --No. 16: [J] Very small lapis ball beads. --No.17: [K] Large facetted lapis lentoids. --No. 18: [L] Lapis double conoid beads. --No. 19: [M] Lapis lentoids and some silver beads. --No. 20: [N-O] 2 silver wire spiral coil earrings. [P] Lapis lentoid beads. --No. 21: [Q] Small lapis lentoid beads. --No. 22: [R] Silver wire spiral coil earrings. [S] Facetted lapis lentoid beads. [T] Cylinder seal, white shell, decayed (not kept) --No. 23: [U] Silver wire spiral coil earring. [V] Lapis and silver small lentoid beads and a few lapis balls.
12445A	(none)	1929,1017.394	(none)	Varia. [A-B] 2 whetstones. [C-F] 4 silver wire spiral coil earrings.
12445B	(none)	1929,1017.398	(none)	Varia. [A-B] 2 whetstones. [C-F] 4 silver wire spiral coil earrings.
9939	(none)	1928,1010.414	(none)	Whetstone (Broken)
10470	(none)	1928,1010.412	(none)	Whetstone Brown stone Pierced for suspension
8548	(none)	(none)	B17565	Whetstone Brown stone, pierced at top end: in the hole remains of the copper ring.
10079	(none)	(none)	(none)	Whetstone Dark grey stone Roughly square: suspended by a copper ring (broken & missing) which went through a hole pierced from the two edges across a corner [drawing]
9934	(none)	(none)	B17093	Whetstone Dark grey, a rod octagonal in section with a (broken) copper ring for suspension
10533	(none)	(none)	B16993	Whetstone Facetted bar, square in section with rounded top. Normal type. Top perforated to receive copper wire. [drawing]
10393	(none)	(none)	(none)	Whetstone Flat one side, convex on the other shaped thus: [drawing]
8511	(none)	1928,1009.437	(none)	Whetstone Grey stone Section rectangular with bevelled corners: hole at end for suspension.
10477	(none)	1928,1010.411	(none)	Whetstone Grey stone, broken, hung on a loop of gold wire [drawing] 1:1
10552	(none)	(none)	B16695	Whetstone Lapis On a gold ring
10015	(none)	(none)	(none)	Whetstone Lapis lazuli Hung on a thin gold ring which was attached to the silver belt
8484	(none)	(none)	(none)	Whetstone Octagonal Perforated top
8478	(none)	(none)	(none)	Whetstone Octagonal in section Perforated top with part of copper wire inside hole [drawing] 1:2
10422	(none)	1928,1010.417	(none)	Whetstone of white stone nearly rectangular
8431	(none)	(none)	B17091	Whetstone Perforated at top Facetted [drawing c. 1:1]
10539	(none)	1928,1010.413	(none)	Whetstone Perforated at top Normal type; rectangular bar with rounded top