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)
16364 (none) 1931,1010.277 (none) Bronze Pin. With hooked top. Broken in 2 places. [drawing 1:1]
(none) (none) 1931,1010.273 (none) (none)
16690 (none) 1931,1010.27 (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Miniature. Spread eagle.
16795.2 (none) 1931,1010.260 (none) [.1-.2] Beads: glass paste: balls, lentoids, pear-shaped beads, 1 variegated glass bugle bead-combed decoration. Also carnelian, agate and steatite; and some worked yellow glazed beads.
17312 (none) 1931,1010.26 (none) Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 standing figures.
16710A (none) 1931,1010.255 (none) Beads: 401 in all. Jasper, quartz, lapis lazuli, carnelian, agate, cats eye, breccia, granite, amethyst, copper, and various mottled stones, reddish brown, grey, etc. 1 gold double conoid; order not know. Mostly lentoids. Also barrels, rings, double conoids, balls.
17371 (none) 1931,1010.244 (none) Beads. Glass paste lentoids. Glass paste ring beads, small green.; Carnelian oval flat bead engraved thus: [reference to drawing]; Lapis lazuli ball bead. 1 jasper?; Double conoid. Dark green. 1 greenish quartzite double conoid. [drawing]
16374 (none) 1931,1010.237 (none) Necklace. Black steatite & white glass paste barrel beads.
16927C (none) 1931,1010.232 (none) Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
16340 (none) 1931,1010.23 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite 2 standing figures in attitude of alutation on either side of a palm which rises from a high vase. Crescent moon and scorpion.
16138 (none) 1931,1010.218 (none) Beads: agate double conoids; carnelian double conoids; quartzite double concoids; carnelian ring beads.
16152 (none) 1931,1010.19 (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Part of one end missing. Seated god, 2 standing gods & between them a squatting dog(?).
16746 (none) 1931,1010.187 (none) Obsidian Rod. Glass makers material(?). Small portion of head missing. [drawing]
16249 (none) 1931,1010.185 (none) Duck weight 24.32 grs. Brownish-grey limestone. Probably 3 sheqels (nominal weight 25.248 grs.). Type VI. [A-B are subdivisions based on BMdb]
16429V (none) 1931,1010.184 (none) Weight. Steatite. Blackish-gray. Bugle [crossed out] cylindrical. Weight=0.576 grs = 4 "little sheqels" (nominally=0.560) Type III
16247 (none) 1931,1010.183 (none) Inscribed Weight Ovoid Steatite Dark Grey Inscribed [Drawing of Cuneiform] (=IGI-II-GAL= one half) 1/2 a Half-Sheqel (Nominal Weight = 2.104 GRS) Type I
16429P (none) 1931,1010.182 (none) Weight. Slightly flattened lentoid. Black marble with white veins. thus: [Drawing] Incised marks on 1 side. Weight 5.952 grs. = 1 double minette (nominally 5.611). Type II.
16239J (none) 1931,1010.181 (none) Weight 7.232 grs. ovoid (chipped) limestone. yellow 1 sheqel(?) (nominal weight 8.416 grs.) Type I.
16429N (none) 1931,1010.179 (none) Weight. Lentoid. Marble. Black with white vein. Weight 8.22 Grs =1 Sheqel (nominally = 8.416). Type II
16239E (none) 1931,1010.178 (none) Weight 2.88 grs. Steatite. Ovoid. Greenish-black. 1 minette (nominal weight 2.805 grs) Type I.
16229P (none) 1931,1010.176 (none) Weight 16.64 grs. Diorite. Dark grey. 2 sheqels. (nominal weight 16.832grs) Type VII. [drawing]
16239W (none) 1931,1010.175 (none) Weight 0.64 grs. Steatite. Ovoid. Black. Type I.
16429L (none) 1931,1010.171 (none) Weight Black diorite. Long ovoid. Weight 17.488 grs. 2 sheqels (nominally 16.832 grs.) Type ?
16020 (none) 1931,1010.17 (none) Steatite Cylinder-seal. Namhani son of Ur-baga. HC.30/I.6. UET 8/2 (hand copied by Legrain) [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
16229T (none) 1931,1010.164 (none) Duck-weight 6.4 GRS. Unbaked clay. Brownish-buff. Type VI. [drawing]

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