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)
18927 35-1-10 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. Seated deity and 2 worshippers and goat.
19191 35-1-1 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Shell. With rings of steatite inset at the two ends. Heroes fighting animals. (somewhat decayed).
18511 33-35-99 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Basic diorite. [Type] 8. [drawing]
18583 33-35-98 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Limestone. White with two ochrous yellow strata. The outside cut as a flower with 12 sharply pointed petals in high relief: the color of the stone lends to the flower effect. The rim chipped: otherwise complete. [Type] 2. [drawing 1:1]
(none) 33-35-188 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) 33-35-185 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) 33-35-184 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) 33-35-183 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) 33-35-182 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) 33-35-181 (none) (none) Unknown
18452 33-35-179 (none) (none) Cylinder seal of black steatite. Design: running gazelles, zigzags and frogs.
18276 33-35-174 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Fragment of greenish grey steatite. Only 2 columns of inscription left; no figures.
18258 33-35-173 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Presentation scene. Seated goddess, with 2 standing figures and 2 lizards. Poor condition.
18248 33-35-172 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Two men fighting a lion. Poor work and in poor condition.
18337 33-35-169 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Grey steatite. Circular, with convex tip, pierced horizontally. Subject: 2 animals, a third animal and an unrecognizable object: engraved mostly with the circular drill.
18339 33-35-168 (none) (none) Fragment of statuette. Grey steatite. Part of a male figure wearing the Kaunakes with upper part of body bare: the hands clasped over the breast. Preserved , one half of the body, cut vertically, right side & rt arm, from just below the shoulder to the hip. The figure was deliberately cut in pieces: the saw marks go partly through the figure and then the fragments were broken apart. Fine work of about 3rd Dynasty or a little earlier.
18342 33-35-165 (none) (none) Puzuzu head. Dark steatite. With ring for suspension. Coarse work. [drawing]
18341 33-35-164 (none) (none) Animal's body. Grey steatite. Body of couchant animal, the hind quarters complete, in fairly high relief: the front leg only sketched: the stone is rounded off at the shoulder so that there never was a head. The body is flat and bears two engraved signs thus. [drawing]
18340 33-35-162 (none) (none) Calf's head in dark steatite. The neck pierced horizontally for attachment The eyes hollowed for inlay and a hole for inlay in the forehead. Good archaic work.
(none) 33-35-133 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 33-35-132 (none) (none) (none)
(none) 33-35-131 (none) (none) (none)
18585E 33-35-127 (none) (none) [A-I] A set of weights. Weights in grains [A] (1) Diorite, pierced at one end. 413 grs. [B] (2) Hematite . 130grs. [C] (3) Hematite 64grs. [D] (4) Hematite 65grs. [E] (5) Steatite 37grs. [F] (6) Steatite 7grs. [G] (7) Steatite 10grs. [H] (8) Hematite 78grs. [I] (9) Doubtful weight: white calcite shaped as a plano-convex brick 315grs. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
18709B 33-35-122B (none) (none) [A-P] Polished stone celts. 16 in all.
18709A 33-35-122A (none) (none) [A-P] Polished stone celts. 16 in all.

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Igneous - Metamorphic - Sedimentary