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)
11745 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. 2 heroes fighting a lion & a bull.
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.
11801 (none) 1929,1017.391 (none) Whetstone. Greenish stone.
11819 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone, straight-sided (broken).
11829 (none) 1929,1017.475 (none) Flint arrowhead.
11831 (none) (none) (none) Limestone Bowl or trough. Rough.
11841 30-12-549 (none) (none) Palette. Soft fossiliferous limestone in form of a shell. Outside decorated with a mountain pattern: the inside is divided into 3 compartments containing the remains of white pigment.
11843 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Mottled grey steatite. Men & animals fighting.
11846 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. God seated on mountain, with 2 attendants, and 2 other divine figures standing.
11849 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone (broken) hemisperical with flattened base.
11852 (none) 1929,1017.354 (none) Cylinder Seal. Black steatite. Animals & men fighting.
11853 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. Grey steatite. Flattened hemispherical: round the outside, a line at the rim & below this concentric circles incised; broken & part missing. Broken in antiquity & mended with copper rivets which have been broken.
11858 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase. Grey-white limestone.
11863 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White limestone not bored: roughly engraved. 2 registers: above, banquet and rampant lion; below, Im-dugud.
1187 (none) (none) (none) Black steatite cylinder-seal with device of "introduction" to a god, who faces right with crescent over him. Inscribed: - IM-ti-dam; mar I-li-mi.
11870 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. Dark greenish steatite (broken) with low base-button.
11883C (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 Roundels, [A-B] 2 of shell, [C] 1 of shale, [D] and an oval-topped shell button inlaid with a rosette of red & blue petals. D. 220mm [E] Broken pin of type VI, but with head missing; possibly this is all one composite pin-head, or perhaps only the roundels are such, as they would give just the effect of a lapis ball set in gold or silver. [drawing]
11885 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Dark greenish grey steatite. 2 bulls, heraldically crossed, fighting with 2 lions which are attacked from behind by 2 men. Inscription: the monogram dutu. [drawing of symbol]
1189 (none) (none) (none) Black steatite cylinder seal with rather careless design of the "introduction" scene, the god facing right, with crescent before him.
11898 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase. White limestone. [Drawing] Much warped; The rim diam. is 011 one way and only 009 the other. Type 78
1190 (none) (none) (none) Portion of a large black diorite duck-weight, originally of 30 minas. Much broken, both on the head and across the middle. On one side of the neck, a crescent moon in low relief, on other side, part of an inscription dedicating the object for the life of a king of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur: the name is now missing. R.1. No. 84.
11901 (none) 1929,1017.689 (none) Stone Vase. Limestone, white. [Drawing]
1191 (none) 1924,0920.22 (none) Large black diorite gate-socket, dedicated in the cult-temple of GIMIL-SIN, king of Ur (3rd Dynasty), by a certain Lugal-magu-rri, patesi of Ur. The inscription of 16 lines is engraved on the upper surface partly surrounding the socket hole.
11926 (none) (none) (none) Limestone Bowl. (chipped, and the surface badly decayed).
11927 (none) 1929,1017.682 (none) Stone White calcite. Spouted pot [Drawing] [Annotated] Type CXXV

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