This rock is usually white to grey in color and very soft. It is usually used in statues and inlaid designs.

Objects: Steatite Export: JSON - XML - CSV Clay Seals and Sealings

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
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]
17341 31-43-76 (none) (none) Button seal. Steatite(?). White. Fragment. Half only remains. Animals. With a boss on the upper side perforated for suspension.
9513 (none) (none) B16941 Cylinder seal Dark green steatite The eagle grasping 2 stags
9634 (none) (none) B16935 Cylinder Seal Dark steatite 2 heroes fighting lions
9652 (none) (none) B16857 Cylinder seal Dark steatite A hero fighting a bull (or wild oryx)? and a lion and a bull fighting.
9721 (none) (none) B17024 Cylinder seal Haematite Black Copper caps. This seal adhered to copper pin U.9720 Two seated deities, facing on another, from the first a stream of water trickles from the out-stretched left hand; above, crescent moon; second deity holds a cup? in right hand; above him the sun; and third standing deity? faces him. Behind the first deity a standing attendant.
8476 (none) (none) B16887 Cylinder seal Steatite Black Inscribed but illegible. Two heroes attacking a rampant lion. One grasps him by the tail, the other attacks from the front.
18452 33-35-179 (none) (none) Cylinder seal of black steatite. Design: running gazelles, zigzags and frogs.
16554 31-43-34, 31-43-34 (none) (none) Cylinder seal, steatite. Ur-Ki(?)-dur(?)-sag(?) servant of... H.C. 30/II, 10
6983 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Grey steatite. 4 standing figures. Attributes: crescent moons. About BC 2000. B.
8991 (none) (none) B16859A Cylinder seal. Steatite, dark grey mottled. Scene: Gilgamesh, Eabani, lion and bull.
15479 31-17-130 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Chariot drawn by an antelope(?) headed by a man. Emblem-spread eagle.
16609 31-43-35 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Presentation scene before seated god. Behind throne a (shrine door)? depicted like a ladder with 6 rungs.
15478 31-17-20 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. Standing god, worshipper & rampant lion.
15474 31-17-21 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 scorpions.
13663 31-17-23 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Broken. God and worshipper, crescent and emblem. Fragment of inscription. steatite. HC.1929/30 - 100.
18924 35-1-17 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Brown steatite. Two heroes fighting animals.
15307 31-17-126 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. 2 men & 2 scorpions.
18974 35-1-9, 35-1-9 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark green steatite. One seated and three standing figures: two columns of inscription. Inscription: Lugal-ma (C.J.G.)
14489 31-17-16 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite.
18946 35-1-4 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Animals fighting; two lions heraldically crossed and two gazelles.
18870 35-1-12 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Dark steatite. Seated goddess and two standing figures.
18919 35-1-22, 35-1-22 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Green steatite (?) with copper caps. Two standing gods shaking hands: two men killing a kneeling prisoner: two columns of inscription supported by an animal. Good work.
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).
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