Grinders, Pounders, Picks

This category includes objects used for pounding or grinding. These objects are probably used mostly in food preparation and fine manufacturing

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
13705A	(none)	(none)	(none)	(A) Upper quern-stone. dark grey larve. Set in a round-topped lump of bitumen which served as a handle; (B) A lower saddle quern-stone of dark lava.
13705B	(none)	1930,1213.271	(none)	(A) Upper quern-stone. dark grey larve. Set in a round-topped lump of bitumen which served as a handle; (B) A lower saddle quern-stone of dark lava.
8035	(none)	(none)	B17096	Brown whetstone. [drawing 1:1]
11947D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Tools. (A) Flat trowel-shaped blade with long handle. [Drawing] (B-C) with this two awls (D) Square whetstone with hole in one corner.
11724B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Tools. [A] A trowel-like instrument, flat bladed; lying symmetrically on the blade & oxidized on to it are 3 small tools. [B] With these a whetstone, a flat pebble circular in shape, drilled at one corner for suspension and inscribed.
16293	31-43-273	(none)	(none)	Diorite pick. Originally hafted in wood. [drawing 1:1]
16144	(none)	(none)	(none)	Granite pestle(?) Truncated cone with lugs at side. [drawing]
195	(none)	1923,1110.49	(none)	Granite pick-head. Broken. Ceremonial or votive offering. [drawing]
194	(none)	(none)	B14960	Granite pick-head. Broken. Ceremonial votive offering. [drawing].
17704	(none)	(none)	(none)	Grinder. Diorite. Great toe of left foot of statue sawn off and used as grinder. [drawing 1:1]
6990	(none)	(none)	(none)	Grinder. Diorite? Black. Highly polished. Oval shaped, Long sides flat, short sides rounded. E.
8490	(none)	(none)	(none)	Grindstone Roughly triangular with rounded edges. Slight hollow at one end. [drawing] 1:1
9041	(none)	(none)	(none)	Grindstone (Whetstone) Hole perforated through top. Part of copper wire from which grindstone was suspended remains in position in the hole. Part of top missing. Rounded in section. Common type.
6405	(none)	(none)	(none)	Grindstone. Broken.
12256F	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Wreath of 16 gold beech leaves on lapis & carnelian strings. [B] (2) Frontlet of gold, lentoid shaped, rosette decoration on long gold wire ties, looped one end, the other end consists of a carnelian ring bead the wire being coiled to prevent it from falling off. Frontlet is bent double. [C] (3) Gold coil earring. 2 1/2 coils. [D] (4) Gold coil earring. 1 1/2 coils. [E-F] (5) 2 gold chains. Double twisted links giving a square section. Strung with 1 gold facetted lentoid & 2 lapis ditto.with carnelian ring beads in between. [G] (6) Whetstone. [H] (7) Silver pin with lapis ball head & gold cap, straight, circular in section. [I] (8) Beads. Large carnelian bugles and small lapis double conoids & 1 jasper bugle; flattened carnelian double conoids & flattened rectangular lapis beads one with a rib down middle. [J] (9) Copper Axe. Type XIX. [K](10) Bowl. White calcite. [Type IX] [drawing] [L](11) Stone bowl. White calcite. [M] (12) Ostrich shell badly broken. Traces of red paint. [N] (13) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli 2 registers: above, banquet scene; below, men fighting crossed animals- -lions.
6651	(none)	1927,0527.66	(none)	Mortar. Diorite. Grey. Vol. VII. See fieldnote C7 for sketch.
12220	31-16-431	(none)	(none)	Mortar. Limestone. White. Type LXXX. Variant. [drawing]
12771J	(none)	1928,1010.716	(none)	Objects. (A) Miniature white calcite bowl (the rim chipped) thus [reference to drawing] [Type RC12]. [drawing 1:1] (B) Shallow bowl of basic diorite (?). (C) Fragment of stone bowl (?) re-used and pierced with 3 holes: basic diorite (?). [drawing] (D) Miniature square box roughly made from light drab clay. (E) Miniature clay bowl. (F) Miniature goblet in light drab clay thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2] (G) Wheelmade pot of pinkish clay with pin-hole orifice at neck (neck broken off). [drawing] (H) Clay bead (?) or handle (?) rough cylinder longitudinally pierced. [U.12771I not assigned] (J) Oval pebble burnisher. Thin and flat. (K) Flint chip. (L) Flint saw. (M) Part of clay jar-sealing with indistinct traces of relief. (N) Clay jar sealing with rows of animals. [drawing 1:1] (O) Flint hoe (?) of T.O. type [Tel Obaid].
7543	(none)	1928,1009.429	(none)	Pestle. Greyish marble. Cylindrical with hemispherical top and bottom. Bottom slightly wider than top. [drawing 1:1]
11149	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pestle. Limestone. White. Shaped like a truncated cone with convex ends. [drawing]
13748	(none)	1930,1213.232	(none)	Pounder. Dark grey stone. Polished. Section at base. Not in catalog. [drawing 1:1]
13738	31-16-471	(none)	(none)	Pounder. White limestone. Not in catalog. [drawing]
13730	31-16-470	(none)	(none)	Pounding-stone or hand hammer. Pebble. A flattened sphere; on one flattened side bruises due to hammering.
8741	(none)	(none)	(none)	Quern. Limestone. Shaped like a flattened headless duck. [drawing]
16348	(none)	(none)	(none)	Rubbing stone. Black Diorite.