Sedimentary
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) |
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![]() | 16960 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Limestone statue of a seated goddess. She wears a long flounced garment reaching to the feet; hands clasped below breasts. The hair is confined by a plain heavy bandeau and falls in a square mass behind the back with a lock over each shoulder. The eyes are inlaid with shell and lapis, and the eyebrows with lapis. Very coarse ugly work. |
![]() | 16994A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Sculptor's trial pieces. (A) Limestone fragment with unfinished engraving of a seated figure : very roughly cut : might well be a study for a cylinder seal. (B) Limestone fragment. Standing figure of a nude man; head and arms broken away : shallow but fairly good work. |
![]() | 16994B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Sculptor's trial pieces. (A) Limestone fragment with unfinished engraving of a seated figure : very roughly cut : might well be a study for a cylinder seal. (B) Limestone fragment. Standing figure of a nude man; head and arms broken away : shallow but fairly good work. |
![]() | 17006 | 31-43-484 | (none) | (none) | Amulet. In shape of date stone. Limestone? White [drawing 1:1] |
17015 | 31-43-52 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 figures before a standing goddess. Goose | |
![]() | 17092 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl pot. Limestone? White. Shaped as a double column, ech one perforated to hold the kohl. |
![]() | 17095 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian lentoids. Agate lentoids. Quartz lentoids. Steatite lentoids. Breccia lentoids. Glass paste lentoids, double conoids. One carnelian pendant. One banded sard pendant. Also one glass paste puzuzu head pendant. [drawing] |
![]() | 17099 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Limestone. White. Presentation scene. Two standing figures before a seated god. |
![]() | 17114 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Limestone mace-head. Rounded pear-shaped. |
17340 | 31-43-11 | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1] | |
![]() | 17352 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet. Limestone. Grey. Three crudely cut birds incised thereon. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17602 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Statue fragment of White limestone. Back of head, showing type of hair-dressing: all the face in part of the ears broken away. [drawing] |
![]() | 17645 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Drill handle of pink limestone pierced for suspension throguh the top edge of the socket for the drill-head highly polished. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17646 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads about 70 of rock crystal, agate, carnelian, steatite and granite (?). With them, an object in white limestone a disk (badly chipped) pierced in the center, flat and with slight mushroom stem and a second hole in the flat part. [drawing 1:1] |
17662 | 32-40-319 | (none) | (none) | Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1] | |
![]() | 17675 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17676 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Gazelle; fish; diamond motif. |
![]() | 17678 | 32-40-324 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679. |
17681 | 32-40-142 | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Pink limestone. Not RC or L [drawing] | |
![]() | 17697 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flint. Small cutting tool. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17710 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bead. Limestone. Scratched pattern. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17714 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Arrowhead. Flint. Point missing. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17716 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Hoe. Chert. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17717 | 32-40-436 | (none) | (none) | Pictograph. Limestone. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17723A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 arrowheads. [originally recorded as 2 miniature cutting tools] Flint. Chisel shaped type. [drawing 1:1] |
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Breccia - Chert/Flint - Limestone - Sandstone - Shale
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