Stone
Natural aggregates of one or more minerals and sometimes non-crystalline substances.
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) |
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 | 11204 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. (7). Large lapis double conoid; oolite? barrel bead; 2 gold ring beads; 2 carnelian ball beads; 1 rock crystal double conoid. |
| 11182 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Birds and animals very roughly done. |
| 11181 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Dark steatite. Handle type, rectangular. Scorpion. [drawing 1:1] |
| 11162C | (none) | (none) | (none) | (A) Gaming-board. Set in silver. Shell plaques engraved with lapis borders engraved with animal scenes, except for 2 in rosettes. Only part of it was found, giving in all: 13 plaques of which 6 were still in their setting and 7 loose: these have been reset, those in original order in the top 2 rows, the rest below, and one rosette piece omitted. Orig. W. 120mm(?); plaques 32 x 40mm; 35mm square. With this must go: (B) Gaming pieces, of white shell, square with engraved scenes, in all 9 and one half piece. (C) Gaming pieces, circular, of balck shale with 5 white dots, diam. 25mm, 3 in all. (D) one white disk with blue spot. (E) Small balls of lapis, 8 in all. (F) 23 small white balls (these are perhaps counters)? (G) 3 lapis dice, of usual solid triangle with inlay dots at 2 points. (H) 6 square men, black and white spots. (NB: Some of the gaming pieces B & C were found in Chamber B.) [I] [Not assigned] (J) [J, L-M] 3 slender rods, square in section, of ivory (?) with engraved patterns on one edge and concentric circles on the other. L. 65mm, W. 4mm (K) in the inside of the board (a box) was a complete set of men, 7 white and 7 black, the former with animal scenes, the latter with 5 white dots. |
| 11155 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Ostrich Shell. Originally decorated on base and round the rim with incrustation in shell, lapis, and red stone. All ornament gone: the Shell much distorted and broken. |
| 11150 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Brownish mottled marble. Enkidu and Eabani attacking a rampant lion from in front and from behind a third hero attacking a rampant bull. Standing upright in the ground a (throwing spear) with a loop. Slightly concave. Strong bold cutting. [drawing] |
| 11149 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pestle. Limestone. White. Shaped like a truncated cone with convex ends. [drawing] |
| 11143 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Very crude cutting. A seated goddes greeting a standing figure apparently legless. Behind throne a (spread eagle?) on an alter. |
| 11107 | (none) | 1928,1010.239 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Marble. Greyish and mottled. Inscribed. Presentation scene: enthroned god and four figures advancing towards him. All the gods wear the horned headdress and three wear the flaunced kaukanes skirt. One has a plain skirt indicated by vertical radial lines running down from the waist; the introducing deity has a skirt with a division down the middle and a fringe at the bottom. This skirt is indicated by markings running down obliquely to a central vertical line that marks the division. All wear the cloak with one arm only exposed. The seated god appears to be enthroned on a mountain indicated by triangular blocks from the top of which rises a tree. Attributes: lightening? and one deity carries a staff? on the shoulder. Inscription e-zi(d) Ezid; dub-sar scribe. HC..213. |
| 11101 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace. Gold ring beads. Carnelian double conoids. Agate barrels. Large flattened agate double conoid. White (steatite?) lentoid. Jasper double conoid. For order see Field Notes. |
| 1101 | (none) | (none) | B15730 | Duck weight. Black granite. Rough P. | |
| 10987 | (none) | (none) | B16895 | Cylinder Seal. Shell. Geometrical design. [drawing] | |
| 10973 | (none) | (none) | (none) | White limestone Bowl. Broken. |
| 10969 | 87-28-20 | (none) | (none) | Dark steatite Bowl. Finely polished. In fragments. |
| 10968 | 87-28-19 | (none) | (none) | Dark steatite Bowl. In fragments. |
| 10852 | (none) | 1928,1010.421 | (none) | Vase Greenish grey steatite [drawing] Type [struck out: "44 (new)"] to be drawn as 74 On the flat rim is incised a bulls leg |
| 10840 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads One fairly large carnelian lentoid, carnelian rings, gold balls, and a few dark steatite lentoids |
| 10822C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. A. Silver pin with fluted lapis ball head and fluted gold cap. Type V. B. Lapis lazuli cylinder seal, 2 registers: Upper: scorpion, kneeling hero fighting rampant lions, (a panther?), a striped zebu, and behind them a standing skirted male figure. Lower: gate of a shrine and within it seated figures drinking through straws, 3 seated figures, and 2 standing attendants. C. Limestone Bowl. Type XII D. Necklace of silver and lapis double conoids with 3 large facetted beads, 2 carnelian, 1 gold. For order see Field Note. |
| 10819E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. A. [A and F] Two copper pins, both broken, one with a plain the other with a fluted lapis ball head. Tip of second missing. Type V B. [B and G] pair of cockle shells containing black and green paint. C. necklace of lapis and silver double conoids and carnelian ring beads. For order see Field Notes. D. [D.1-.2] Pair of silver earrings 2 1/2 coils E. A limestone bowl. Type XII |
| 10764 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Black steatite Crude second-rate cutting Male figure with head resembling a deaths head, standing between 2 tall rampant bipeds with long bills. Behind each a rampant beast, one of which is a lion; beyond the lion a tree, a bird-headed male figure wearing a (fork diadem)? and a vertical wavy line representing running water. |
| 10742 | (none) | (none) | B16938 | Necklace with silver dog amulet Jasper, carnelian, silver beads and one (oolite?) Silver dog has a harness represented by a relatively wide band of copper round neck along top of back and running round rear portion of body in a single piece. Body perforated longitudinally. For order and sketch see Field Note. | |
| 10727 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Steatite Black Rampant men & animals. Figs obliterated |
| 10714 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Steatite bead Flattened double conoid Black [drawing] c. 1:1 |
| 10712 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 15 Discoid Beads Glazed (originally blue?) frit beads & black steatite? Probably buttons of Field Notes [drawing] |
| 10705B | (none) | 1928,1010.276 | (none) | Necklace Two string lower string- steatite diamonds, carnelian double conoids & barrels Upper string- minute lapis, carnelian& silver beads For order see Field Notes E |