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)
12747 (none) 1929,1017.476 (none) Flint. With serrated edge. Exposed. The flint itself is overlaid with bitumen: the bitumen is flat on one side and convex on the other [drawing 1:1]
12101 (none) 1929,1017.476 (none) Flint Saw. [drawing 1:1]
11829 (none) 1929,1017.475 (none) Flint arrowhead.
13035E (none) 1929,1017.465 (none) [A-B] 2 hematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum]
13035D (none) 1929,1017.464 (none) [A-B] 2 haematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum]
13035C (none) 1929,1017.463 (none) [A-B] 2 haematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum]
11801 (none) 1929,1017.391 (none) Whetstone. Greenish stone.
12033 (none) 1929,1017.384 (none) Cylinder Seal. Steatite. Black. 2 Deities standing on either side of a (palm?) tree fixed in a vase.
11462A (none) 1929,1017.381 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Subject: seated deity & attendant. With this, probably fastened to it, was a (B) copper pin L. 012, same number L. 20mm D. 11mm
11509 (none) 1929,1017.378 (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Row of men (?) very crude and primitive.
11596 (none) 1929,1017.376 (none) Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Man fighting a lion; a seated goddess. Inscribed: En An-Ki-da ? Lord (priest?) of Heaven and Earth. HC..12.
11515 (none) 1929,1017.375 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark grey steatite. Presentation scene.
11591 (none) 1929,1017.374 (none) Cylinder Seal. Dark steatite. 2 men fighting a lion.
12371E (none) 1929,1017.373 (none) Group: [A.1-.3] 3 silver wire spiral coil earrings. [B] Necklace of gold and lapis large fluted ball beads. [C] Copper pin with ball head VI B. [D] Slender copper needle. [E] Cylinder seal, white calcite.
12704C (none) 1929,1017.371 (none) Group: [A] (1) Stone vase. White calcite. Type same as U.12277 [Type] LII. [B] (2) Stone vase. White calcite. Spill type. [drawing 1:5] [C] (3) Stone bowl grey steatite. Broken but complete [Type] LXXXVI. [D] (4) Stone bowl. White calcite. [Type] LIII. [drawing 2:5] [E] (5) Three silver finger rings: corroded together - only one intact - consisting of 3 1/2 coils of fine wire. [F] (6) Remains of copper pin with fluted lapis ball head. Type V B. [G] (7) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. 2 registers. Above: spread eagles and rampant gazelles (?). Below: Gazelles. [H] (8) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Rampant lions crossed and gazelles. [I] (9) Beads. Lapis bugles and double conoids. Carnelian bugles and rings and some silver wire pendants much decayed. See field note. The silver spiral pendants had 4 circles of spiral coils made out of a single strip of wire thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing] [J] Also in the necklace a minute lapis lazuli frog amulet. [K] Round forehead thin gold ribbon. [drawing] [L] Large double conoid carnelian beads and a few bugles and one calcite bead shaped thus [reference to drawing], diamond shaped in section.
12329 (none) 1929,1017.370 (none) Cylinder Seal. Dark. Steatite. Deity within a shrine (represented by a gateway) & two male figures approach with offerings: the one carries an object thus- the other a goat: between the devotees and the deity a palm sprouting from a stand.
11709 (none) 1929,1017.369 (none) Cylinder Seal. Dark steatite. Apparently unfinished. 2 figures (Ea and an adorant) and the beginnings only of a third.
11476 (none) 1929,1017.367 (none) Cylinder seal. Dark grey steatite. Presentation scene. Ningal seated with attendant behind and two standing figures in front.
11852 (none) 1929,1017.354 (none) Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Animals & men fighting.
12765 (none) 1929,1017.352 (none) Cylinder seal of grey-brown steatite (?). Geometric design.
11751 (none) 1929,1017.348 (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell, the ends inlaid with lapis disks. Very much decayed. 2 heroes & 4 animals: man on the left strikes at a rampant bull(?) turned away from him & grappling with a lion(?) this lions body crosses that of a second lion who attacks a bull which is seized from behind by a figure half human and half bull. Between the two human figures is a double column inscription, upper register only:-Mes-kalam-dug(or sar) Lugal.
12631 (none) 1929,1017.326 (none) [A] Beads. A motley collection including: rock crystal balls, hematite balls, shell and (Chrysoprase?) [chalcedony] bugles (broken), [B.1-.3] 2 unpierced steatite cylinders (for seals). 1 - unpierced marble cylinder (ditto) and [C] fragment of an obsidian mace head. (truncated pear shaped).
13042 (none) 1929,1017.324 (none) Necklace. Carnelian, quartzite and steatite double conoid beads.
12677B (none) 1929,1017.322 (none) Group: [A] Cylinder seal lapis lazuli. Geometric decoration. [B] Beads. Carnelian rings and lapis double conoids also 1 mottled marble barrel bead. [C-D] Earrings. Silver. A pair. 1 1/2 spiral coils with thickened lunate ends and [E] 1 copper. [F] Copper finger ring.
(none) (none) 1928,1010.778 (none) (none)

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