Calcite
Calcite is a very common and widespread mineral that comes in a variety of forms and colors. It ranges in color appearing as white, colorless, gray, red, green, blue, yellow, brown, and orange. It has a moh's hardness of 3.
Calcite is a very common and widespread mineral that comes in a variety of forms and colors. It ranges in color appearing as white, colorless, gray, red, green, blue, yellow, brown, and orange. It has a moh's hardness of 3.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 14443A | (none) | 1930,1213.130 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Calcite. Transluscent. 2 registers. Above: Banquet scene. Seated male figure sucking drink end of a tube from a bowl which rests on a stand. Next: a male figure sedentary and seated female. Behind the seated female two attendants. Below: Seated male accosted by a standing figure presents an offering. Table with offerings on it, attendant stands against table stand attendant extracting liquid from a two legged jar. |
| 13521 | 31-17-118 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Calcite. White. 2 registers. Imperfect condition. Above: banquet scene, 3 seated figures, two of them sucking drink through a tube the third approached by a standing figure third approached by a standing figure. Below: two rows and a spread eagle. | |
| 11990 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Greenish white calcite, translucent. [Annotated] Inscription: Kalam-il (DU =?) ra-gab =Kalam-il envoy (or the like). [Annotated] HC..17. |
| 11896 | 30-12-31 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Pale green calcite. (1 side decayed) human-headed bulls & heroes fighting. | |
| 11401 | 30-12-23 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Pinkish grey steatite. Early type. Subject: 2 figures with bird-like heads seated facing each other and drinking through tubes from a common vessel. They are seated in a boat with high stem and prow, a reed plant (?) at the end of the boat and below objects like reed bundles. | |
| 12034 | 30-12-11 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Shell. Decayed. Fighting beasts (lions?). | |
| 6842 | (none) | 1927,0527.183 | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. White. 2 rampant lions - one side re-cut. E. |
| 12091 | 30-12-41 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Shell. White. Presentation scene before seated deity, inscribed? Very poor condition: no photos possible. | |
| 13031 | 30-12-44 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Greenish. Presentation scene and 1 dwarf-like figure. | |
| 7503 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White calcite. Minor deity greeting major deity? Inscribed: Isib ^dNin-Subur (=Priest of Ninsubur, or nom. prop.) SAL-Ku-a [crossed out] Nin-a ba-ku(?)-ma(?)-ti |
| 17868 | (none) | 1932,1008.173 | (none) | Cylinder seal. White limestone. Introduction scene with seated deity and 2 standing figures: poor work. |
| 11889 | 30-12-7 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell (in poor condition) A man, a lion, a bull & a gazelle fighting. | |
| 11528 | 30-12-8 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell much decayed. Subject: a man & 2 lions rampant against a deer? upside down. | |
| 11443 | 30-12-49 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell, much decayed. Inscription apparently: Sagdudu. HC..5. | |
| 11725 | 30-12-40 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White shell. A god with one foot on a hill, & 3 worshippers. Inscription (Lug)al(?)-(?)-la(?)-ni dub-sar(=scribe). | |
| 11978 | 30-12-9 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell. Decayed, but design visible of fighting animals. | |
| 12011B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seals. (A) Lapis, geometric pattern. (B) White translucent calcite decayed & design gone. |
| 16429A | (none) | 1931,1010.113 | (none) | Duck weight Steatite, pale grey. Erased inscription in 2 lines, incised in square frame on right side. Traces of characters still visible as follows: [drawing]. To be weighed. Type VI [drawing] |
| 17834 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Figurine of seated calf. White calcite. Usual attitude, body in profile. Left hand turned over shoulder to face outwards. |
| 17841 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Figurine? Of veined reddish calcite. (broken = and the surface badly decayed). Apparently a human figure very summarily represented with drilled eye-holes. [drawing 1:1] |
| 7917 | (none) | (none) | B16905 | Flat seal. Hemispherical. Calcite. Greyish. Animal? design. | |
| 1167 | (none) | 1924,0920.397 | (none) | Fragment from near the rim of an alabaster vase. |
| 248 | (none) | 1923,1110.15 | (none) | Fragment of Alabaster jar. Inscribed with a dedication to dNin-Kul [Crossed out] Contains curses on any who write their names on the object, in which Nin-sun and Lugal-banda are invoked. Dedication for (?) Dungi by a SAL-ME priestess. [Annotated] Part of same bowl as U.257. [Annotated] Joined to U.257 and U.260 |
| 254 | (none) | 1923,1110.27 | (none) | Fragment of alabaster jar. Inscribed. Dedicated to dDungi by his daughter ME-dEnlil. Copied and Translated. Placed in IN/No.1 |
| 6333 | (none) | (none) | B16518, B16518 | Fragment of alabaster vase of Rimush after plundering of (Bara)-ah-sumki and Elam. Cf. SAKI p. 162 (c) H.C. E. |
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