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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![]() | 17006 | 31-43-484 | (none) | (none) | Amulet. In shape of date stone. Limestone? White [drawing 1:1] |
16547 | 31-43-51 | (none) | (none) | Limestone cylinder seal Nin-es(?)-ba-na, Son of ... H.C. 30/II, 3. | |
17015 | 31-43-52 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 figures before a standing goddess. Goose | |
16927G | 31-43-7 | (none) | (none) | Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering] | |
(none) | 31-43-78 | (none) | (none) | Unknown | |
![]() | 17935G | 32-40-108 | (none) | (none) | Celts. [All objects drawn, objects grouped by material description] [A-B] Jasper [drawing 1:1] [C-E] Diorite [drawing 1:1] [F] Basalt [drawing 1:1] [G] Limestone [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17950 | 32-40-116 | (none) | (none) | Flint. Polished on both sides. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17951 | 32-40-117 | (none) | (none) | Flint. Black stone. [drawing 1:1] |
17681 | 32-40-142 | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Pink limestone. Not RC or L [drawing] | |
![]() | 18142C | 32-40-260 | (none) | (none) | Beads. A collection of mixed stone beads. The majority of stalagmite calcite, plain milky calcite, black and white granite, marble, steatite, pink limestone, jasper etc. ? Third dynasty. |
17869 | 32-40-316 | (none) | (none) | Jeweller's trial piece (?). Fragment of a four-sided rod of white limestone: on one side a roughly cut intaglio; a small figure of a man copulating with a woman, the latter figure large and grotesque. | |
17662 | 32-40-319 | (none) | (none) | Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1] | |
![]() | 17678 | 32-40-324 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679. |
![]() | 17726 | 32-40-330 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. 2 men fighting a lion. |
![]() | 17850 | 32-40-333, 32-40-333 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder (seal?) unpierced. White limestone with 4 columns of inscription. Two names. NU-UR-KU-BI son of DUG-GA-AN-SA and E-MU-MA-NI-DA son of NU-UR-KU-BI. HC 1931 / 1 |
![]() | 17853 | 32-40-435, 32-40-435 | (none) | (none) | Limestone fragment. Flaked off from a curved drum with inscription (nearly completed). --To Amurru; His God; (for) life; Warad-Sin; King of Larsa |
![]() | 17717 | 32-40-436 | (none) | (none) | Pictograph. Limestone. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17936J | 32-40-79 | (none) | (none) | [A-K] Celts. Flint. Straight sided or tang slightly convex. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17936K | 32-40-80 | (none) | (none) | [A-K] Celts. Flint. Straight sided or tang slightly convex. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17938A | 32-40-81 | (none) | (none) | [A-R] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing] |
![]() | 17938B | 32-40-82 | (none) | (none) | [A-R] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing] |
![]() | 17938C | 32-40-83 | (none) | (none) | [A-R] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing] |
![]() | 17938D | 32-40-84 | (none) | (none) | [A-R] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing] |
![]() | 17938E | 32-40-85 | (none) | (none) | [A-R] Celts. Flint. With concave tangs. [drawing] |
![]() | 17725 | 32-40-86 | (none) | (none) | Arrowhead. Chert. Tang and point broken. [drawing 1:1] |
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Breccia - Chert/Flint - Limestone - Sandstone - Shale
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