Basalt
This is made of quartz and feldspar, usually a grey to black color that weathers to brown or rust-red with oxidization. It has a fine grained texture. It is used in statues.
This is made of quartz and feldspar, usually a grey to black color that weathers to brown or rust-red with oxidization. It has a fine grained texture. It is used in statues.
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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) | 30-12-42 | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
 | (none) | 35-1-23 | (none) | (none) | (none) |
| (none) | 31-17-160a | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| 11677 | (none) | 1927,0527.24a | (none) | Fragment of Statue(?) Diorite inscribed. |
| 13035C | (none) | 1929,1017.463 | (none) | [A-B] 2 haematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum] |
| 1505 | (none) | 1924,0920.182 | (none) | Weight (?) Black stone. Blunt-end cigar-shaped. Type II. [drawing 2:5] |
| 1550 | (none) | 1924,0920.205 | (none) | Roughly fashioned human hand, with fingers. Dark grey stone. [drawing 2:5] |
| 16229B | 31-43-123 | (none) | (none) | Weight 16.6 GRS. Pebble. Black. Slightly chipped. 2 sheqels. (Nominal weight 16.832 grs.). [drawing] Type V | |
| 16229C | 31-43-103 | (none) | (none) | Weight 5.76 GRS. Schist(?) ovoid. Black. 1 double minette (nominal weight 5.611 grs.) Type 1 | |
| 16229G | 31-43-107 | (none) | (none) | Weight 0.832 GRS. Slate(?) Oblong (Surfaces slightly convex). Brown. 1/10 sheqel (nominal weight 0.8416 grs.) Type VII | |
| 16229Y | (none) | 1931,1010.157 | (none) | Weight 42.88 GRS. Ovoid. Haematite. Black. 5 sheqels (nominal weight 42.08 grs.) Type I. |
| 16239W | (none) | 1931,1010.175 | (none) | Weight 0.64 grs. Steatite. Ovoid. Black. Type I. |
| 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 |
| 16268B | (none) | 1931,1010.116 | (none) | [A-F] Set of weights: steatite, fire-blackened. To be weighed. [A] (1) Ovoid; [B] (2) long ovoid, broken and repaired; [C] (3) lentoid, broken and repaired; [D] (4) lentoid; [E] (5) narrow lentoid; [F] (6) fragment, 3 inscribed strokes on side. [drawing] |
| 16268F | 31-43-265 | (none) | (none) | [A-F] Set of weights: steatite, fire-blackened. To be weighed. [A] (1) Ovoid; [B] (2) long ovoid, broken and repaired; [C] (3) lentoid, broken and repaired; [D] (4) lentoid; [E] (5) narrow lentoid; [F] (6) fragment, 3 inscribed strokes on side. [drawing] | |
| 16268O | 35-1-401 | (none) | (none) | [G-N] Stone pounders. Pebbles, mostly natural shape, of hard stone, of different sorts, several of them bearing marks when they have been used for hammering gold, or where gold has been hammered on them. Most have been split by the heat when the temple was burnt. Amongst them are [O-Q] 3 worked tools, pounders. [drawing] | |
| 16421D | 31-43-262 | (none) | (none) | Weight. ovoid. basic diorite(?) grey. To be weighed. Type I. | |
| 16429CC | (none) | 1932,1008.58 | (none) | (none) |
| 16429G | (none) | 1932,1008.56 | (none) | Weight. Steatite. grey. lentoid. Weight = 9.152 grs. Type II. |
| 16429J | (none) | 1932,1008.53 | (none) | Weight Fire-blackened steatite. Ovoid. Weight 7.104 grs. Type I. |
| 16429S | (none) | 1931,1010.163 | (none) | Weight. Haematite. Bugle [crossed out] cylindrical. Weight= 0.64 prob=5 "little sheqels" (nominally=0.70) Type III |
| 16932B | (none) | 1931,1010.158 | (none) | Weight. Steatite, blackish - grey bugle [Crossed out] cylindrical. Weight 0.448 grs. 3 little sheqels(?) (nominally 0.420). Type III |
| 1701 | (none) | (none) | B15732 | Stone Weight. Black stone. Cigar shaped with 6 incised strokes. Type II |
| 17684 | (none) | 1932,1008.75 | (none) | Weight. Haemitite. Type III. [drawing 1:1] |
| 17749 | 32-40-125 | (none) | (none) | Weight. Haematite. 2 scratches. Type II. [drawing 1:1] |
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