Natural aggregates of one or more minerals and sometimes non-crystalline substances.

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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)
8093 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark fading to yellow. Introduction scene: a seated deity, a minor god, and 2 worshippers.
8085 (none) 1928,1009.18 (none) Cylinder seal of yellowish white quartzite. Two registers: Above, a door(?), then a seated deity & a worshipper, then a worshipper pouring a libation into a tall vase with fronds rising from it, set in front of a seated deity. Below, 2 rams, one on each side of a tree, then a worshipper before a seated deity, then a man catching a rampant antelope. Very archaic style.
8082 (none) (none) B17159 Stone bowl. White limestone. Type XII.
808 (none) (none) B15325 Basalt duck weight. Broken below the breast and badly cracked by fire. Inscribed on wing 30 true minas. Type VI
8075 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type XII.
8074 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone, rather course: the outer surface has suffered badly by fire. Type XVIII
8072 (none) (none) B16806 Amulet of grey slate in form of a bird. [drawing 1:1]
8069 (none) (none) B17176 Stone bowl. White limestone. Hemispherical with flattened base. Cracked down one side. Type IX.
8063 (none) 1928,1009.519 (none) Stone bowl. Dark steatite. Finely polished. Type LXII.
8062 (none) (none) B17247 Stone bowl of poor quality white limestone. The surface much decayed. Type IX but with slight ring to base.
806 (none) 1923,1110.2 (none) Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of NABONIDUS. The fragments of the iron shoe of the door-post are still fixed in the stone.
8056B (none) (none) B16891 Cylinder seals of white shell. All in very bad condition. A: 4 animals, the centre two heraldically crossed, and a tree? or man? B: unrecognisable. C: unrecognisable.
8052 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Greenish stone (basic diorite?). Anciently broken & rivetted. Found in fragments. Type _.
805 (none) (none) (none) Diorite statue. Of Entemena. Found in burnt layer on Nabonidus pavement before the inner doorway of the Ziggurat gate in the SW temenos wall. Headless. Long inscription on rt. upper arm and across back of shoulders. Wears usual fleece skirt: hands clasped below breasts.
8047 (none) (none) B17163 White limestone pot. With almost vertical carinated sides. Type LXX 8.
8041 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. White steatite. Scene: Gilgamesh(?) and 4 rampant animals, in the centre 2 bulls heraldically crossed, flanking them 2 lions.
8032 (none) (none) B17179 Stone bowl White limestone, good quality An oval bowl with small horizontal lug handles Type LXIV
8025 (none) (none) (none) Stone rubber. Black diorite. [drawing 1:1]
8020B (none) (none) (none) Two squares. [A] One of white bone. [B] One of dark grey stone. Each set with 5 inlay dots, black on the white square, white on the black, thus: [drawing 1:1]
8001B (none) (none) (none) Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] a pair, containing white pigment. (B) single shell containing green pigment. (C) [C and E] a pair containing yellow pigment.
80 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Greenish white steatite. Subject, god seated rt. A minor deity introducing a worshipper: inscr. in 2 columns [drawing of inscription] 3rd Dynasty
7996 (none) (none) B17164 Stone pot. Coarse white calcite or limestone. Containing a black pigment. Type IX.
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)
7986 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Design in 3 registers, worn and not recognisable.
7976 (none) 1928,1009.119 (none) Ball bead of black steatite.

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