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)
271 (none) (none) B14941, B14941 Fragment of stone dish. Dedication by a priest of Nannar, "thy son"
280 (none) 1923,1110.34 (none) Fragment of black stone vase. With circular depressions for inlay on side and bottom. The inlay remains in two cases. Four rows decreasing in size on side. Above bottom rim an inscription reading "Dungi, the mighty man, king..."
281 (none) 1923,1110.33 (none) Fragment of stone vessel. Showing lip and five rows of depressions for inlay. Shaped [drawing of shape]. Inscribed ".....king of Ur."
283 (none) (none) B14952, B14952 Fragment of stone vase. One side, decoration of concentric circles. On base ends of lines of a column of inscription.
286 (none) 1923,1110.16 (none) Fragment of limestone pot, from rim. Traces of long inscription showing long line on right-hand side. Placed in IN/No. 1.
293 (none) (none) (none) Gate socket. Limestone. Inscription of Kurigalza, badly damaged. Copied.
295 (none) 1923,1110.3 (none) Gate socket, Basalt. Inscription on smooth surface, with shoulder below. Records the building of A.A22AG.GA.NI GIG.KISAL[Above] by Bur-Sin I. Copied and transliterated.
302 (none) (none) B14956 Steatite box-lid. fr. of; Circular: the top carved with a rosette of which the petals were originally inlaid; two holes are pierced through the lid from side to side for strings. [Drawing 1:1}
304 (none) (none) (none) Limestone relief. Fragment of, In bad condition. Subject: a man kneeling rt and castrating a bull (?): the bull much damaged: to l. part of a fowl (?) on a large scale. Probably Chaldaean period.
305 (none) (none) B15326 Limestone relief. Fragment of Showing a wall against which the top of the scaling ladder, and above the feet of a man: part of a siege subject. Found with U. 304
307 (none) 1923,1110.50 (none) Marble relief. Fr showing feathers or hair, possibly one side of a coiffure: certainly intended for inlay: hole in the back for fixing something (a face?) in the center.
309 (none) (none) (none) Fr of statuette. Base and feet only preserved. Steatite, dark There are holes pierced horizontally through the base as if to attach it to something
368A (none) (none) B14964 [A] Stone mould, broken, for making clay figurines. Scene: a god seated on a stool wearing the seven-horned cap, with left arm and hand stretched out towards a standing figure in a plain robe wearing a single horn: above two crescents. (B) Second fragment; female figure standing upright (Baghdad)
404 (none) (none) (none) Bead. Half of. in black obsidian. Globular, the surface inscribed reads "(Ur-En)gur.... King of Ur."
405 (none) (none) B14953 Stone vase-lid. Light steatite. Circular. Knob handle broken: round the top a band of dotted concentric circles.[drawing]
420 (none) (none) B15324, B15324 Basalt hinge-socket of GIMIL ILISHU.
421 (none) (none) (none) Basalt hinge-socket of GIMIL ILISHU.
422 (none) (none) B15323 Basalt hinge-socket of UR-ENGUR.
423 (none) (none) (none) Basalt hinge-socket of UR-ENGUR.
424 (none) (none) (none) Basalt hinge-socket of UR-ENGUR. The stone had been cut down and re-used between the Nebuchadnezzar and the Persian periods: its connection with the door was not certain.
447 (none) (none) (none) Pyramidal seal. Black steatite. one half of Subject: a standing god rt; before him a standing worshipper l: between them a sacred column (?) and a scorpion.
448 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Subject: a god standing and two worshippers one on each side of him. Very poor, scratchy work.
449A (none) (none) B14963 [A-F] Marble vase. In coarse white marble. Five [Crossed out] Six [Written above] fragments of, showing remains of a frieze of waterpots with water pouring out symmetrically from them. Drawing photo 65.
495 (none) (none) (none) Scarab. White steatite. Inscr. [drawing]
496 (none) (none) B15255 Scarab. Green glaze. Inscr. [drawing]

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