Quartz
This material comes in every color. Usually found in sand, Used in glass and as gemstones.
This material comes in every color. Usually found in sand, Used in glass and as gemstones.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16372 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace. Large beads. Quartz, glass paste, jasper, sandstone(?) lentoids. For order see Field Note. |
| 3262 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Necklace. Of carnelian, crystal, agate, one pebble and one amethyst; carnelian very roughly cut. In text: Neo-Babylonian period(5) in cat. |
| 6468 | (none) | 1927,0527.144 | (none) | Pendant, in shape of duck? Pierced for suspension. ? A lion's claw. E. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8715 | (none) | (none) | B17031 | Pendant. Rock crystal. Translucent. Rectangular in section. One side slightly covex. Blackened by fire. | |
| 16743 | 31-43-46 | (none) | (none) | Quartz cylinder. Unengraved. Unpierced. cf. U. 16606. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 9769 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Reticule Copper with gold rim band Complete except for ring |
| 415 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Rock crystal cylinder seal. Fragment of. Subject: Gilgamesh and the lions: 2 columns of inscription. Poor scratchy work. |
| 3142 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Rock crystal eye. Conventional cut, unengraved and pierced for suspension. Egyptian style. [drawing 1:1] |
| 3346 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Rock crystal ring. Plain broad band, semi-transparent. Text: Neo-Babylonian period (14) in Cat. |
| 2714 | (none) | 1927,1003.205 | (none) | Seal cylinder. Rock crystal. Broken. Unusual scene. About BC 2300. [drawing] |
| 6988 | (none) | (none) | B16302 | Seal. Amethyst. Blue-violet. Flat on one side, convex on the other but not completely rounded, apex top. Hawk with spread wings, legs crossed in middle of breast. Neo-Babylonian. E. | |
| 16760 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Quartz. Shaped like a flattened truncated cone with base slightly convex and 4 sides. |
| 1640 | (none) | (none) | (none) | String of beads. (36) Ball beads of carnelian and rock crystal with cat's eye center. |
| 1641 | (none) | (none) | (none) | String of beads. (39) Mixed shapes in carnelian, rock crystal, lapis lazuli, etc., with central bead of lapis wound round with gold wire. |
| 2934 | (none) | (none) | (none) | String of beads. Small lentoids of carnelian, rock crystal, granite, hematite, red jasper, sard, shell, copper, etc., with shell disc pendant. Together and re-strung arbitrarily. |
| 16254 | 31-43-122 | (none) | (none) | Weight 1.6 GRS. Flattened lentoid. Crystal. White 11 little sheqels (nominal weight 1.54 grs.). Type II | |
| 15190.1 | (none) | 1935,0113.448 | (none) | [.1-.2] Beads. Amethyst - hexagonal lentoids; glazed frit-lentoids. Copper balls. | |
| 15190.2 | 31-17-62 | (none) | (none) | [.1-.2] Beads. Amethyst - hexagonal lentoids; glazed frit-lentoids. Copper balls. |
| 18252.1 | (none) | 1933,1013.155 | (none) | [.1-.2] Beads. A mixed lot of carnelian balls, cylinder and facetted date shaped: steatite cylinders, crystal rings, yellow glaze strip, green glaze tubular, yellow glaze hub type, green glaze scaraboid, poopy seed pendant (carnelian) glass paste balls etc. |
| 18252.2 | (none) | 1933,1013.165 | (none) | [.1-.2] Beads. A mixed lot of carnelian balls, cylinder and facetted date shaped: steatite cylinders, crystal rings, yellow glaze strip, green glaze tubular, yellow glaze hub type, green glaze scaraboid, poopy seed pendant (carnelian) glass paste balls etc. |
| 6069A | (none) | (none) | B16395 | [A-B] 2 rock crystal? pendants. One to E. [drawing 1:1] | |
| 6069B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 rock crystal? pendants. One to E. [drawing 1:1] |
| 9561A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Necklaces. 2. Found in original order. (A) Middle of string in front, 1 silver flattened conoid, 1 double conoid rock crystal; 1 copper ball bead, 1 lentoid jasper, 1 copper ball bead; 1 banded sard; 1 copper ball bead; 1 banded sard, 1 copper ball bead. Rest of string composed of flattened silver double conoids. (B) String of lapis lazuli double axe and ball beads. |
| 12631 | (none) | 1929,1017.326 | (none) | [A] Beads. A motley collection including: rock crystal balls, hematite balls, shell and (Chrysoprase?) [chalcedony] bugles (broken), [B.1-.3] 2 unpierced steatite cylinders (for seals). 1 - unpierced marble cylinder (ditto) and [C] fragment of an obsidian mace head. (truncated pear shaped). |
| 18121B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Beads. Agate ball and carnelian balls and double conoids; chalcedony double conoid; lapis, jasper agate and carnelian date-shaped; jasper (?) double conoid; [B] amethyst scaraboid; [A] steatite flattened balls; glazed frit discoid; [C-D] 2 glazed frit thick discoids with criss-cross on one side: [E] small glazed scaraboid with bungled heiroglyphs: [F] pebble scaraboid. Roughly incised thus: [drawing] [G] carnelian domical ovoid roughly engraved with figure of deer (?); [H] small puzuzu head in turquoise: [I] chalcedony seal, with Persian figure of a man standing in prayer. [drawing] [J] Also: a copper fibula. [drawing] |
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Amber - Chalcedony - Chrysoberyl - Hematite - Iron Pyrite - Jadeite - Lapis Lazuli - Malachite - Turquoise
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