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)
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.
838 (none) 1923,1110.1 (none) Basalt hinge-stone. In bad condition. Inscribed with the name of GIMILSIN.
950 (none) (none) B15322, B15322 Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of KURIGALZU.
806 (none) 1923,1110.2 (none) Basalt hinge-stone. Inscribed with name, etc., of NABONIDUS. The fragments of the iron shoe of the door-post are still fixed in the stone.
901 (none) (none) (none) Basalt impost-stone. Inscription with name, etc., of BURSIN.
404 (none) (none) (none) Bead. Half of. in black obsidian. Globular, the surface inscribed reads "(Ur-En)gur.... King of Ur."
17710 (none) (none) (none) Bead. Limestone. Scratched pattern. [drawing 1:1]
17675 (none) (none) (none) Bead. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1]
6006 (none) (none) (none) Bead. Roughly cylindrical black diorite inscribed - Cut out of cylinder seal. B.
17693 32-40-312 (none) (none) Bead. Steatite. Pierced lengthwise; series of scratchings. [drawing 1:1]
17711 (none) (none) (none) Bead. Steatite. Scratched pattern. [drawing 1:1]
17743 32-40-313 (none) (none) Bead. Steatite. [drawing 1:1]
10700 (none) 1935,0113.438 (none) Beads 3 small steatite lentoids 1 glazed ball head 1 oval shaped composite pendant in 5 pieces, grooved vertically to receive string See Field Notes E
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.
10840 (none) (none) (none) Beads One fairly large carnelian lentoid, carnelian rings, gold balls, and a few dark steatite lentoids
18113A (none) (none) (none) Beads [A]. Agate elliptical and date shaped, marble elliptical, carnelian date-shaped, carnelian tubular and ball shaped and long double conoid, shaped agate, facetted eliptical in carnelian, blue glaze disk. [drawing] [B-C] Also, scraps of gold foil. [D-E] Also 2 bone spindle whorl.
17646 (none) (none) (none) Beads about 70 of rock crystal, agate, carnelian, steatite and granite (?). With them, an object in white limestone a disk (badly chipped) pierced in the center, flat and with slight mushroom stem and a second hole in the flat part. [drawing 1:1]
20041B (none) (none) (none) Beads. [A] A large collection, mostly carnelian but also other stones[?], of various forms together with a [B] steatite pendant thus [drawing] and a [C] paste scarab inscribed thus [drawing] [D] and a copper fibula (broken) thus [drawing] . Said to have been found with nos 20042-7.
18266A (none) (none) (none) Beads. (A) 3 triple-bored square spacers of glazed frit, a quantity of minute rings and tubes of blue paste, tubes of white paste and pink limestone; then probably all going together. Also: (B) A mixed string of shell tubes, cylinders and date shaped: glazed frit lozenges, glass paste date-shaped: glaze nasturtium seed, discoids, glass balls, paste double conoids, glass cylinders and paste rings and 1 carnelian cylinder. Found in disorder.
19247 (none) 1935,0112.80 (none) Beads. 1 shell tube, and 2 oval shell frontlets; diamond beads of lapis, mother-of-pearl, paste and limestone, paste balls, small shell rings, quartzite rhomboid and square paste spacers.
18901 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 3 large crystal flattened date-shaped; 1 limestone ditto; 1 agate barrel; 3 steatite rings.
19249 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Balls of frit, originally blue-glzed, now mostly bleached, a few carnelian and one steatite rings.
19251 35-1-94 (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian cylinders, quartzite cylinders, lapis cylinders, balls and ovals.
19256 (none) (none) (none) Beads. Carnelian rings, black steatite rings (large), shell and black steatite tubes(large), calcite button, very small shell (or paste) rings.

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Igneous - Metamorphic - Sedimentary