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)
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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Igneous - Metamorphic

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