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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 6444 | (none) | 1927,0527.37 | (none) | HEAD of female. FRAGMENT. Black Diorite. Left eye and left side of forehead mutilated. Hair represented by fine wavy parallel lines and done up in a chignon, overhanging loop at the back as in the diorite statue of UR-BAU. To go in Cat I of Vol. IV. |
| 3253 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of statue. Black diorite:: head of young person, finely modeled, broken off at base of skull: nose broken. Sketch. In text: Neo-Babylonian period (8) but date is probably 3rd Dynasty or earlier. [drawing] |
| 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. |
| 15582 | 31-16-473 | (none) | (none) | Hematite (?) Lump. Found by the head of the body in a TO grave. | |
| 7825 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Inscribed duck weight Diorite. A crescent. of Dungi; weight 5 mana. B Type VI. HC.37. |
| 1191 | (none) | 1924,0920.22 | (none) | Large black diorite gate-socket, dedicated in the cult-temple of GIMIL-SIN, king of Ur (3rd Dynasty), by a certain Lugal-magu-rri, patesi of Ur. The inscription of 16 lines is engraved on the upper surface partly surrounding the socket hole. |
| 16544 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Mace head, diorite (see U.16543) Dedicated to Pa-sag HC.. |
| 16543 | 31-43-274 | (none) | (none) | Mace head, diorite (see U.16544) Dedicated to Pa-sag HC.30/III,7. |
| 1208 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Massive brick diorite gate-socket, with 8 lines, inscription of Kurigalzu. |
| 6651 | (none) | 1927,0527.66 | (none) | Mortar. Diorite. Grey. Vol. VII. See fieldnote C7 for sketch. |
| 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. |
| 12771B | 31-17-319F | (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]. | |
| 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]. |
| 6276 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pedestal of status. Black diorite. Fragmentary. Partially originally the base of the black diorite statue of King Dungi found nearby. Text: Dim-tab-ba temple(3) |
| 17979A | 32-40-118 | (none) | (none) | Polished celts [drawing] [7 in all A-G] [A] Diorite [B] Jasper [C-G] unspecified |
| 17979C | (none) | 1932,1008.77 | (none) | Polished celts [drawing] [7 in all A-G] [A] Diorite [B] Jasper [C-G] unspecified |
| 1190 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Portion of a large black diorite duck-weight, originally of 30 minas. Much broken, both on the head and across the middle. On one side of the neck, a crescent moon in low relief, on other side, part of an inscription dedicating the object for the life of a king of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur: the name is now missing. R.1. No. 84. |
| 7598A | (none) | (none) | B17088 | Ram's head. Diorite. Blue. Part of nostrils and mouth missing. also, front of neck. Traces of paste eyeballs inlaid in eye sockets. Straight neck through middle of which a hole 15mm in diameter; has been bored thus showing that it was originally an ornamental head standing on a pole and probably not a complete ram. cf. U ._ Gudea period? 2400-2300BC [drawing 1:1] |
| 6832 | (none) | 1927,0527.38 | (none) | Ram. Black diorite. Fragment. Part of one horn alone remains. E. |
| 16348 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Rubbing stone. Black Diorite. |
| 18299 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Sculpture head. Fragment of diorite. Life-size male head wearing broad high fillet treated like the crown of the head with small circular rings of hair. The face all deliberately smashed away and part of the right ear, right eyebrow and inner corner of right eye preserved. Very fine work of the best Guden type. |
| 2813 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal Cylinder. Broken. Diorite. III Ur Dynasty. 2 lines of inscription defaced. Goddess seated on a bird. [drawing] dNannar ( )mu? Servant of Nannar. |
| 3359 | (none) | 1927,1003.203 | (none) | Seal cylinder. Diorite. About BC 2500. [drawing] |
| 3237 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal cylinder. Diorite. IIIrd Ur Dynasty. [drawing] |
| 2766 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal cylinder. Diorite. Weathered. Lugal--/son of?/shephard. [drawing] |
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