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Historical Archive: Jet and Bitumen jet: form of fossilized wood; bitumen: form of petroleum bitumen: lyre/harp, Ur c.2550-2450 BCE, Penn B17694A/B, which has its own page woman spinning from Susa, bitumen, 8th-mid 6th c. BCE, Louvre Sb 2834 jet bead set in gold as a bound pendant, 5th to 3rd c. BCE, from Maikop, RGM D351 jet bead set in gold as a bound pendant, 5th to 3rd c. BCE, from Maikop, RGM D351 Medusa, jet, late 3rd c., KHM XI 1309, which has its own page equestrian seal of William Fitzhamor, jet intaglio, English early 13th c., BM 1978,1-2,1 portrait lit from top left. Ring of Jean sans Peur, Paris c.1410, Louvre OA 9524, which has its own page. Deposition with stamp of Santiago de Compostella, jet and silver, 15th or 16th c., Louvre OA 11112