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)
17856 32-40-239 (none) (none) Beads. Very small rings of white shell and dark steatite in bad condition.
18996A (none) (none) (none) Beads: [A-B] Two steatite frog amulets [C] carnelian tube with bleached bands, very small glazed frit rings.
18996B (none) (none) (none) Beads: [A-B] Two steatite frog amulets [C] carnelian tube with bleached bands, very small glazed frit rings.
19056 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian balls and long dated-shaped and cylindrical; lapis ovals and cylinders; shell date-shaped; jasper date-shaped and paste ditto, and paste rings; steatite frog amulets.
15357 (none) 1930,1213.150 (none) Beads: One steatite flattened oval; one ring-bead of green-blue jade(?) and a quantity of minute while shell rings found with a head in the mixed burial L. [drawing 1:1]
16363 (none) (none) (none) Beads: 3 gold barrel beads: carnelian rings and a plain scaraboid; 3 lapis scaraboids 1 with design; 2 steatite double concoids; glass paste ring bead-broken; 1 lapis (?) ball bead. [drawing]
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.
16710B (none) (none) (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.
16212 (none) (none) (none) Beads: A mixed lot of paste, carnelian, agate, jasper, cats eye, crystal, breccia, sard, hematite, lapis, copper, amethyst. Order not kept.
16138 (none) 1931,1010.218 (none) Beads: agate double conoids; carnelian double conoids; quartzite double concoids; carnelian ring beads.
16166 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Agate, steatite, jasper, glass paste, carnelian lentoids, barrels, balls, double conoid.
16354 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian barrels, rings, lentoids. Bone? rings. Steatite rings. Shells
16698 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Carnelian bugles and flattened double conoids; steatite bugle; glass paste fluted bead; green quartzite(?) bead. [drawing]
19047 35-1-92 (none) (none) Beads: carnelian large date-shaped (broken) and rings; steatite barrel; agate tubular; small paste tubes and date-shaped; and 3 frog amulets, steatite. (22 in all).
19055 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings, cylindrical and balls and double conoids: lapis balls, ovals, and double conoids: ribbed paste: steatite frog amulet, and mother-of-pearl bird amulet [drawing 1:1]
16115 (none) (none) (none) Beads: carnelian rings; white sard lentoid; green glaze balls; paste lentoids; amethyst double conoids; breceia triangle, agate barrels and lapis paste. (for order of stringing see Field Note).
16205 (none) (none) (none) Beads: Dark steatite scaraboid, on the base a scorpion roughly drawn. Glazed scarab (glaze gone); and some glazed lentoid beads, one of pink pebble, one crystal bead & a big hematite ball bead. [drawing]
15606 (none) (none) (none) Beads: dark steatite, falttened lentoid with engraved pattern (much worn). [drawing 1:1]
15312 31-17-67 (none) (none) Beads: gold, lapis, carnelian, agate, limestone
18995 (none) (none) (none) Beads: large chalcedony date-shaped, chalcedony balls, granite flattened date-shaped, limestone ditto, crystal ditto, crystal, carnelian and chalcedony balls, silver balls.
18932 (none) (none) (none) Beads: large steatite barrel, carnelian double conoids, date-shaped and balls; agate barrels and date-shaped; crystal date-shaped; carnelian tubular, long steatite, long date-shaped, engraved paste rings. Restrung in original order. [drawing]
16697 31-43-147 (none) (none) Beads: Mostly lentoids. Jasper, carnelian, granite, agate, sard, lapis, quartz. A few carnelian balls and double conoids.
18962 (none) (none) (none) Beads: small string of lapis diamonds, carnelian rings and tubular (one square in section, one round), steatite cylinder and diamond.
19874 (none) (none) (none) Bird's head. Hard limestone (perhaps for a shell lamp?) [drawing 1:1] Style of Royal Tombs
6355 (none) 1927,0527.26 (none) Black and white granite cup of Naram-Sin. "King of the 4 corners of the world" Broken. A second inscription was added afterwards -"Shulgi mighty king, King of Ur, king of the 4 regions of the world. Me dEn-lil his daughter." E

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Igneous - Metamorphic - Sedimentary