This group of rocks are formed by the accumulation and cementation of fragments of earlier rocks, minerals, and organisms in water.

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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)
3215 98-9-20 (none) B16676 Ur-Engur, king of Ur Inscription on a fragment of white limestone relief, probably from a larger scene on a stele. Rest of standing figure probably of the king dressed in a long fringed shawl (being introduced to a seated God?) H.C.
8733 87-28-14 (none) (none) Vase. Limestone. White. Broken in 7 pieces. Part of rim missing. Broken and rivetted in antiquity and stuck together with bitumen. Rivet holes filled up with a white paste that may be burnt gypsum now called plaster of Paris. Portions of copper rivets still intact in rivet holes. Stone type XLV.
19997 35-1-638 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 6a
19534 35-1-633 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type ... (in fragments)
16268P 35-1-61 (none) (none) [G-N] Stone pounders. Pebbles, mostly natural shape, of hard stone, of different sorts, several of them bearing marks when they have been used for hammering gold, or where gold has been hammered on them. Most have been split by the heat when the temple was burnt. Amongst them are [O-Q] 3 worked tools, pounders. [drawing]
19464 35-1-609 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 10
19604 35-1-602 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 4
19890 35-1-599 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 17
19606 35-1-598 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 6
20008 35-1-597 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. JN
19735 35-1-595 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 10
19813 35-1-594 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type _
19383 35-1-593 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Pink limestone. Type JN 12
19697 35-1-588 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 1
19909 35-1-587 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 3
19560 35-1-581 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 3
18778D 35-1-58 (none) (none) Stone weights A-F a set of five [Actually six]. (A) pebble colored, inscribed. [drawing of weight and inscription] Type XXI. [drawing] (B) oval, grey pebble, inscribed. Weight 1015.65, ratio 2m, unit 8.46 [drawing of inscription] (C) Same shape as B, inscribed grey pebble. [drawing of inscription] (D) Same shape as B, inscribed grey pebble. [drawing of inscription] (E) duck weight, inscribed grey pebble. [drawing of inscription] Type VI. Weight 169.62, ratio 20s, unit 8.48 1/3 Mina (F) duck weight, dark pebble, inscribed. [drawing of inscription]
19393 35-1-578 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Fine white limestone. Type JN 11
18778C 35-1-57 (none) (none) Stone weights A-F a set of five [Actually six]. (A) pebble colored, inscribed. [drawing of weight and inscription] Type XXI. [drawing] (B) oval, grey pebble, inscribed. Weight 1015.65, ratio 2m, unit 8.46 [drawing of inscription] (C) Same shape as B, inscribed grey pebble. [drawing of inscription] (D) Same shape as B, inscribed grey pebble. [drawing of inscription] (E) duck weight, inscribed grey pebble. [drawing of inscription] Type VI. Weight 169.62, ratio 20s, unit 8.48 1/3 Mina (F) duck weight, dark pebble, inscribed. [drawing of inscription]
19041 35-1-561 (none) (none) Limestone bowl. Type 42.
19213D 35-1-560 (none) (none) Group: (A) Gold double conoids, lapis double conoids. (B) Copper pin, Type 1, with lapis ball head capped with gold; broken. (C) [Not assigned] (D) Limestone bowl. Type 47. (E) White calcite bowl. Type 54: imperfect.
18778A 35-1-56 (none) (none) Stone weights. A-F a set of five [Actually six]. (A) pebble colored, inscribed. [drawing of weight and inscription] Type XXI. [drawing] (B) oval, grey pebble, inscribed. Weight 1015.65, ratio 2m, unit 8.46 [drawing of inscription] (C) Same shape as B, inscribed grey pebble. [drawing of inscription] (D) Same shape as B, inscribed grey pebble. [drawing of inscription] (E) duck weight, inscribed grey pebble. [drawing of inscription] Type VI. Weight 169.62, ratio 20s, unit 8.48 1/3 mina (F) duck weight, dark pebble, inscribed. [drawing of inscription]
19562 35-1-559 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Fine limestone. Type JN 48
19797 35-1-555 (none) (none) Stone vase [crossed out] bowl. Veined limestone. JN 6b
19373 35-1-554 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 17

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