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)
(none) 96-9-53.2 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 96-9-53.3 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 96-9-53.4 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 96-9-53.6 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 96-9-53.7 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 96-9-53.8 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 96-9-53.9 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 96-9-53.10 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 35-1-60 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 31-16-504 (none) (none) (none)
10712 (none) (none) (none) 15 Discoid Beads Glazed (originally blue?) frit beads & black steatite? Probably buttons of Field Notes [drawing]
16768M 31-17-160B (none) (none) 17 Haematite Weights (A) lentoid, to be weighed, Type II (B) lentoid, to be weighed. (C) lentoid (broken), weight 25.6 grs =3 sheqels (nominally 25.248) (D) lentoid, weight 17.92 grs.= 2 sheqels (nominally 16.832) (E) alpha / lentoid, weight 16.64 grs. = 2 sheqels; beta [U.16768I] (F) ovoid, weight 8.62 grs. = 1 sheqel (nominally 8.416). Type I. (G) lentoid, weight 8.512 grs =1 sheqel (H) alpha / lentoid weight 8.192 grs. = 1 sheqel; beta [U.16768O] [I] lentoid, weight e.alpha / (exactly) (J) alpha / weight 5.76 grs.= 1 double minette (nominally 5.611), shape thus: [drawing] Type XVIII; beta [U.16768Q] (K) lentoid, weight 5.31 grs. = 1 double minette (L) lentoid, weight 4.03 grs.= 1 half sheqel (nominally 4.208) (M) lentoid, weight 2.94 grs.= 1 minette (nominally 2.805) (N) lentoid, weight 1.152 grs.= 1/2 minette (nominally 1.4025) [O] facetted lentoid, weight = h.alpha / (exactly) (P) fragment of lentoid. [Q] lentoid, weight j.alpha / (exactly). Type II
12112A (none) (none) (none) 2 Cylinder seals & copper pin. (A) Steatite greenish: 2 registers; above, deer on mountains; below, men fighting animals. Poor cutting. (B) Shell, decayed. Figures & animals. Hopeless no photograph (C) Copper pin plain.
13511A (none) (none) (none) 2 necklaces (A) Steatite bugle, steatite double conoid, calcite barrel, carnelian bugle, steatite bugle, gold ball fluted, carnelian bugle, gold ball fluted, steatite bugle, steatite bugle. In order. (B) Second string in following order: steatite ring bead, ditto, steatite double conoid, ditto, gold ball, carnelian disc pendant with white border decoration, gold ring bead, jasper double conoid, ditto.
13511B (none) 1930,1213.515 (none) 2 necklaces (A) Steatite bugle, steatite double conoid, calcite barrel, carnelian bugle, steatite bugle, gold ball fluted, carnelian bugle, gold ball fluted, steatite bugle, steatite bugle. In order. (B) Second string in following order: steatite ring bead, ditto, steatite double conoid, ditto, gold ball, carnelian disc pendant with white border decoration, gold ring bead, jasper double conoid, ditto.
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.
10189 (none) 1928,1010.681 (none) 3 Beads One steatite lentoid; 2 carnelian barrels
16687 (none) (none) (none) 6 beads. Black and white glass tubular. Carnelian ball and double conoid. Mottled double conoid, Breccia(?) double conoid; cats eye.
828 (none) (none) (none) A collection of small flints. All saw-edged. Found with stone bowls and beads.
16280C 31-43-125 (none) (none) A set, found together, with a copper weight (?) all decayed. (A) Duck weight, hematite. weight 2.24 grs. =16 "little sheqels" (exactly) Type VI. (B) Duck weight, hematite. weight 1.152 grs.=8 little sheqels (nominal weight 1.12 grs.) Type VI (C) Pink limestone, [Drawing 1:1] In section thus, weight 3.968 grs. perh= 1/2 sheqel (4.208 grs.) Type ? (D) Shell, similar shape to last but less regular, weight 1.792 grs. (Nominal weight 1.68 grs.) Type ?
6612 (none) (none) B16665 Alabaster stela. Fragment: broken but complete. Lunar disk. Religious? Scene. Three figures only remain in relief on the left - shaven male figure, right arm extended, upper arm only remains. Lower part of body fragmentary. Figure is apparently in profile. Middle figure head lost: left arm mutilated and lower portion of dress lost: arms and apparently head in profile but body full face. Figure is clothed in flounced kaunakas skirt, 6 tiers of flounces showing. Dress covered upper arm but left forearm exposed. Left hand rests on chest, right arm held upright and hand lost. Behind, a clean shaven bald-headed male figure, 3/4 face, left arm held below breast; right arm bent at elbow and held upright carrying an object which may be a torch. Left hand holds a sword which runs diagonally across left side. Figure is apparently draped in a thin waist cloth, mutilated below waist. Typical Sumerian head. At back fragment of an inscription.
8072 (none) (none) B16806 Amulet of grey slate in form of a bird. [drawing 1:1]
17640 (none) (none) (none) Amulet bead. Steatite. [drawing 1:1]
17120 31-43-207 (none) (none) Amulet of dark grey steatite in form of a tortoise [drawing 1:1]
16400 (none) 1931,1010.88 (none) Amulet(?) Obsidian. In shape of birds head. Part of beak missing. Socketed and possibly for fitting on to some other material. [drawing 1:1]

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Igneous - Metamorphic - Sedimentary