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)
11927 (none) 1929,1017.682 (none) Stone White calcite. Spouted pot [Drawing] [Annotated] Type CXXV
11928A.1 (none) (none) (none) [A.1-.3] Limestone Offering Dish [B-F] 5 Copper Daggers & [G-H] 2 Whetstones. All type V with central rib-shape of gold dagger-blades.
11949A (none) 1930,1213.574a (none) [A-B] 2 Stone Bowls. White limestone (one smashed) One was inverted over the other and between them was a [C] cochle shell containing light green paint Type XXIII
11955 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone (broken).
12007 (none) 1929,1017.687 (none) Stone Vase. Whitish grey limestone. Type CXXVII. [drawing]
12009 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone. Much cracked & warped, straight-sided. Type XXV [drawing]
12089 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. Limestone. Grey. Type ?
(none) (none) 1929,1017.476 (none) (none)
12150 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. Limestone. White. Type LXXV. [drawing]
12217 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl.White limestone. Trough type with lip spout. Badly broken & limestone decayed. For type see field notes.
12223 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone. Broken.
12315 (none) 1929,1017.671 (none) Stone Bowl. Limestone. Rim chipped. Type CXIV. [drawing]
12319 (none) (none) (none) Offering table. White limestone. Engraved with palm design. Top tray badly broken.
12322 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. Bad sandstone. Badly broken.
12327 (none) (none) (none) Limestone Inlay. Fragment. Bald-headed Sumerian punting a bellum. Same as U.11400.
12349 (none) (none) (none) Arrowhead. Flint. [drawing]
12434 (none) (none) (none) Collection of flints, flint cores and potsherds including painted specimens found at a depth of 13m below zero (see field notes on PG 1237B).
12492 (none) 1929,1017.670 (none) Bowl of white limestone. The edge of the rim nicked on the outside. Type XLIII. [drawing]
12629 (none) (none) (none) Mould for Sirrush. Minute. Shale? Dark. Back of mould shaped like a rectangular stamp seal.
12631 (none) 1929,1017.326 (none) [A] Beads. A motley collection including: rock crystal balls, hematite balls, shell and (Chrysoprase?) [chalcedony] bugles (broken), [B.1-.3] 2 unpierced steatite cylinders (for seals). 1 - unpierced marble cylinder (ditto) and [C] fragment of an obsidian mace head. (truncated pear shaped).
12680E (none) 1929,1017.672 (none) Group: [A] (1) Copper axe Type XXII. [B] (2) Copper reticule containing manicure tools on ring. Traces of matting on reticule. [C] (3) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Bird headed man and rampant animals. [D] (4) Beads - Worn round forehead? 2 carnelian bugles - 1 lapis lentoid. [E] (5) Stone bowl. White limestone. [Type] XXV. [drawing]
12685 (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowhead. Edges rough. Slightly convex. [drawing 1:1]
12695C (none) (none) (none) Group: [A-B] 1) Two silver earrings: one of normal, small, lunate type 1 1/2 coils; the others also consists of 1 1/2 coils but one end consist of a broad and thin elliptical bend thus - [drawing] [C] 2) Copper bowl. Hemispherical [D] 3) Stone bowl. Containing traces of a reddish pigment? Limestone. [drawing]
12747 (none) 1929,1017.476 (none) Flint. With serrated edge. Exposed. The flint itself is overlaid with bitumen: the bitumen is flat on one side and convex on the other [drawing 1:1]
12771L (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].

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Igneous - Metamorphic

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