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)
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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Igneous - Metamorphic

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