Diorite
This is usually dark gray to black in color. It is usually used as a building stone.
This is usually dark gray to black in color. It is usually used as a building stone.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 6744 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Door-Socket of Ur-Nammu. Bluish diorite? Badly dammage - Same inscription as U.2736 to Innina with a variant 1.2 Nin-azag-nun-na. ? See text |
| 6779B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seated goddess. Ur-Bau? Black diorite. One goose on either side of throne and one under each foot. |
| 6832 | (none) | 1927,0527.38 | (none) | Ram. Black diorite. Fragment. Part of one horn alone remains. E. |
| 6880 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Stone. Black? Fragment. Type XLVI. =RC.36. III pl.XCIX Type 5. |
| 6911 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head. Diorite. Blue-grey. Fragment. Part of nose and right cheek alone remain. Careful modeling: rounded cheeks, prominent nose and lips with distinct cavities in corners, chin fragmentary but apparently perforated at back by single hole which runs down vertically. |
| 6990 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Grinder. Diorite? Black. Highly polished. Oval shaped, Long sides flat, short sides rounded. E. |
| 7534 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Duck weight Diorite. Blue. Duck's head broken off. Type VI. |
| 7586 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Duck weight Diorite. Blue grey. Bottom chipped. Type VI. |
| 7609 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Duck weight. Diorite. Black. modeled head reclining on back and at base webbed feet hitherto never represented on duck weights found at Ur. Type VI. |
| 7644 | (none) | 1928,1009.98 | (none) | Necklace. 12 double conoid carnelian beads. 5 double conoid silver beads. 1 dark green lentoid, basic diorite? All charred by fire. |
| 7650 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Green. Small portion of rim missing. Type LIV stone. |
| 7651 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Basic diorite. Green. Broken and riveted in antiquity. Type VII stone. |
| 7652 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Dark green. Basic diorite. Blackened by fire. Type LV stone |
| 7825 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Inscribed duck weight Diorite. A crescent. of Dungi; weight 5 mana. B Type VI. HC.37. |
| 7830 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Socket. Diorite. UrNammu = 2749 etc. |
| 7939 | (none) | 1928,1009.521 | (none) | Stone vase. Diorite. Blue. Stone type LIX. |
| 8025 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone rubber. Black diorite. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8052 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Greenish stone (basic diorite?). Anciently broken & rivetted. Found in fragments. Type _. |
| 9192 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl Green grey diorite (?) all the upper part broken to pieces and the bottom also missing [Type] ? |
| 9245 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl Basic Diorite? Stone type XXI. (New 19) |
| 10138 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Diorite Block Fragment cf. U.10614 HC 4 |
| 10500 | (none) | 1928,1010.431 | (none) | Stone Vase basic diorite grey Portion of rim missing [drawing] Type [struck out: "XLV"] CVI New type 35 [drawing] |
| 10613 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of Door-socket. Inscription Equivalent to last 5 lines of Bur Sin, U.295, U.1727 Found at same time as fragmentary diorite statue) Later; Another fragment, joining, giving end of lines 2-5. |
| 10614 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Fragment Diorite Beginning of a dedication: Possibly belongs with U.10138: but found not with the latter but with fragmentary diorite statue. In text, see U.1359 etc.HC..4b |
| 10615 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Fragment Diorite? Beginning of a dedication by Dungi (found at same time as U.10,613; U.10, 614) |
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