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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![]() | 18185 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Red limestone. An antelope and a rayed disk standard star above. Poor flat work, much worn. |
![]() | 18220 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Lion's head. White limestone. From the neck protrudes a tenon, for once pierced horizontally for attachment. Very fine miniature work, the surface a bit decayed. |
![]() | 18235 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flint instrument [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 18248 | 33-35-172 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Two men fighting a lion. Poor work and in poor condition. |
![]() | 18257 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White limestone. Winged monster and scorpion. |
![]() | 18266A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. (A) 3 triple-bored square spacers of glazed frit, a quantity of minute rings and tubes of blue paste, tubes of white paste and pink limestone; then probably all going together. Also: (B) A mixed string of shell tubes, cylinders and date shaped: glazed frit lozenges, glass paste date-shaped: glaze nasturtium seed, discoids, glass balls, paste double conoids, glass cylinders and paste rings and 1 carnelian cylinder. Found in disorder. |
![]() | 18309 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of inlay. White limestone. From a frieze of Al Obaid type. A man, naked except for a loin cloth, kneeling on one knee and wielding a paddle or punt-pole (?). The head missing. |
![]() | 18368 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Palm tree and 2 figures. |
![]() | 18369 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. On square pedestal like a four-legged bath, the legs broken off. [drawing 1:2] |
![]() | 18434 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fine limestone. JN8 [drawing 2:5] |
![]() | 18435 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fine limestone. JN12 [drawing 2:5] |
![]() | 18448 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stamp seal. Limestone. Conical type. Subject: a standing bull, with crescent above. |
![]() | 18459 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Carnelian rings, 1 agate and 1 dark steatite cylindrical, 2 pink limestone short tubes and some shell rings. |
![]() | 18513 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. [Type] 12. [drawing] |
![]() | 18515 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. [Type] 18. [drawing] |
![]() | 18516 | 33-35-100 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Banded limestone. [Type] 10. [drawing] |
18517 | 33-35-112 | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Miniature. Limestone. Roughly made, irregular. [Type] 50. [drawing] | |
![]() | 18518 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Rough and irregular. [Type] 11. [drawing] |
![]() | 18519 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl or mortar. Limestone. The outside left rough. [Type] 26. [drawing] |
![]() | 18520 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. [Type] 18. [drawing] |
![]() | 18524 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. Rather coarse grey limestone. The outside carved in relief with a row of 5 bulls in profile, advancing right, their heads turned outwards: each in attached from behind by a lion. [drawing] |
18526 | (none) | (none) | B16676.95 | Limestone relief. Fragment from the stela of Ur-Engur. Apparently part of the bottom register. On the right was a seated figure of the god, facing left, on a throne on a round base: only part of the front of the skirt preserved. The front of him on the base is a naked priest with a fly whisk. In part of the base a curiously elongated figure of a priest holding a fold of cloak and receiving the king of whom only the head and one arm and part of the shoulder remains: he seems to be carrying some burden on his shoulders. | |
![]() | 18530 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. [Type] 17] [drawing 2:5] |
![]() | 18532 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. [Type] 20. [drawing] |
![]() | 18541 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. Cracked and in bad condition. [Type] 18. [drawing] |
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Breccia - Chert/Flint - Limestone - Sandstone - Shale
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