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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9652 | (none) | (none) | B16857 | Cylinder seal Dark steatite A hero fighting a bull (or wild oryx)? and a lion and a bull fighting. | |
| 9661 | (none) | (none) | B16874 | Cylinder seal Marble Mottled Slightly concave Inscribed: - 2 lions rampant, crossed: behind each an attacking hero - beyond are two retainers. Upper register: inscription, lower register: rampant gazelle and hero. Inscription /......mu; Lugal-gis; My (?).... Lugal-gis. (HC. 207) | |
| 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. | |
 | 10138 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Diorite Block Fragment cf. U.10614 HC 4 |
| 10364 | (none) | (none) | B16872 | Cylinder Seal Greenish grey marble Hero: on either side a rampant bull and a rampant lion. Attributes: Crescent Moon, and star on two legged pole. | |
| 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) |
| 10634 | (none) | 1935,0113.376 | (none) | Diorite ? fragment of Gate-socket! with part of a Semitic inscription. [struck out "(about NeoBab. period)"] =Nabonidus, U.806 H.C.9 |
| 11677 | (none) | 1927,0527.24a | (none) | Fragment of Statue(?) Diorite inscribed. |
| 12504 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Diorite gate socket. Ur Nammu. Inscription = Brick inscription SAK 186a. HC114. |
| 12768 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Carved stone. Fragment. Green basic diorite (?). A splinter from a circular object carved in relief with a plant design. [drawing 1:1] |
| 12771C | (none) | (none) | (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]. |
| 13735 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey (basic diorite?) Straight-sided. RC150. [drawing] |
| 13740 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone lamp(?) Grey stone (basic diorite?) A shallow bowl with trough spout. [drawing] |
| 13747 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey stone (basic diorite?) Broken & 1/3 missing. One hole is pierced through the middle of the bottom and two close together near the rim: cf. 13746. [drawing] |
| 13750 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone spindle whorl. Basic diorite(?) Usual plano-convex type. Not in catalog. [drawing] |
| 13765A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone goblet. Diorite, green-grey. JN36. [drawing] |
| 13766 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite, dark grey. JN25. Type XIX (RC15a) [drawing] |
| 13767 | (none) | 1930,1213.257 | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite, dark grey. JN24. [Type] XIX (RC15a) [drawing] |
| 13769 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Diorite, dark grey. JN4? [drawing] |
| 14437 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone roundel. Black (diorite?) Flat below, convex above, a small hole in the centre of the flat side, not going all through the stone. Not in cat. Vol IV |
| 14493A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Dark grey. Basic diorite? Broken but complete. Type LXVII (RC41) |
| 14494A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Greensih grey. Basic diorite(?) Type. LI. |
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