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)
9652 (none) (none) B16857 Cylinder seal Dark steatite A hero fighting a bull (or wild oryx)? and a lion and a bull fighting.
9634 (none) (none) B16935 Cylinder Seal Dark steatite 2 heroes fighting lions
9624 (none) 1928,1010.241 (none) Cylinder seal Steatite Green Presentation scene; seated deity and standing god introducing worshipper. Attributes: Crescent Moon and palm.
9616 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl Steatite Blue-green Stone type LI
9614 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Steatite Dark grey 2 bearded heroes each suspending a rampant lion by the tail. Both heroes stand with one foot upon the mane in token of triumph. Between them a star.
9583 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal Steatite Black Coarse cutting Fighting hero between 2 rampant lions
9542 (none) 1928,1010.246 (none) Cylinder seal Fragment Upper half missing Mottled marble Inscribed Presentation scene before seated god. Flounced kaukanes skirts.
9539 (none) (none) B17147 Vase Oolite? Grey Probably cut down in antiquity from a tall spill vase. Surface badly chipped and pitted Type L1.
9527 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Dark steatite 2 heroes fighting beasts Poor scratchy style
9526 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal White steatite A man fighting 3 beasts, and a tree.
9513 (none) (none) B16941 Cylinder seal Dark green steatite The eagle grasping 2 stags
9510 (none) (none) (none) 2 Shale pieces for Inlay. One a disk with a shallow diametrical groove on one side, the other a circular piece, flat on one side, convex on the other. Originally both may have been fitted together as an inlaid eye for a statue. Criss-cross impressions on each are perhaps to be attributed to a fibrous material by which the two were originally fixed together.
9509 (none) (none) (none) Beads 8 steatite, dark grey, 4 lentoids and 4 double axe-shaped 1 facetted lentoid-bloodstone? Large and small beads strung alternatively round neck.
9508 (none) (none) (none) Arrowhead Obsidian Jagged edge; both sides convex. Slightly chipped on one side.
9505 (none) 1928,1010.419 (none) Feet of Statue Greenish grey steatite Very fine carving. The base is semi-circular: the dress was made in a different piece of stone (? in a different material) and was fixed by rivets to the feet, coming down behind them and completing the circle of the base. [drawing 2:3] View of back of pedastal showing rivet holes. [drawing] 1:1
9504 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Dark steatite Broken Presentation scene: seated Nannar with crescent, minor god and worshipper
9501 (none) 1928,1010.247 (none) Cylinder seal Black steatite 2 heroes fighting a lion. Between the two human figures an inscription in 2 columns. Dugal-dug-ga dumu U-da Lugaldugga son of Uda HC.201
950 (none) (none) B15322, B15322 Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of KURIGALZU.
9355 (none) (none) (none) Plaque and shell fragments Plaque is square, made of shale, and set with five shell circles in one face like a domino number 5. Two of the circles missing. Fragments of shell plaques, one bearing traces of red paint and engraved with the figure of an eagle attacking the back of a bull ? A fresh water shell L.008 from the valve end.
9354 (none) (none) (none) Steatite bowl Broken into many pieces, but virtually complete Type? LXVI.
9283 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Black steatite Men fighting bull & lion an inscription has been intentionally erased
9282 (none) 1928,1009.27 (none) Cylinder seal Dark mottled steatite with copper caps. Introduction scene: seated god and 3 figures approaching him and carrying respectively a tall vase, a cup and box and a gazelle [three lines of undecipherable text erased]
9269 (none) 1928,1009.522 (none) Steatite bowl Broken & portion of rim missing Type LXII
9266 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal Limestone White Subject not clear. A seated god, a squatting lion, vertical posts, a god behind the bards of a gate? And a second standing god.
9265 (none) 1928,1009.59 (none) Button seal Black shale? One side flat, the other convex On the convex side 4 sets of concentric rings Pl. 62 vol. IV L.BM. 120576

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