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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8663 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl White limestone. (Broken and mended, but piece missing from rim). Type XII |
| 8711 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl Limestone White Indented rim. Part missing. Broken in 7 pieces. Stone type XLIII |
| 8718 | (none) | 1928,1010.440 | (none) | Card Missing |
| 8724 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Bath shaped. Limestone. White. Stone type XIX. |
| 8733 | 87-28-14 | (none) | (none) | Vase. Limestone. White. Broken in 7 pieces. Part of rim missing. Broken and rivetted in antiquity and stuck together with bitumen. Rivet holes filled up with a white paste that may be burnt gypsum now called plaster of Paris. Portions of copper rivets still intact in rivet holes. Stone type XLV. |
| 8739 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Limestone. White. Stone type XII. |
| 8741 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Quern. Limestone. Shaped like a flattened headless duck. [drawing] |
| 8771 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Limestone. Grey. Broken and fragmentary. Stone type XII. |
| 8773 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. Limestone. White. Finger bones found inside. Stone type XCII. |
| 8824 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone vase fragment. Polished limestone? 3 fragmentary lines of archaic writing dedication to ^dAn? or to Nab? H.C. 67 |
| 8935A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] 3 handles? Apparently 3 rods made of rings alternately white shell and black shale (?) strung on a reed, the whole ending in a shell handle-knob. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8935B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-C] 3 handles? Apparently 3 rods made of rings alternately white shell and black shale (?) strung on a reed, the whole ending in a shell handle-knob. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8977 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. White limestone. Type ? |
| 9051 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Limestone? White Spread eagle, star above crescent moon, and on either side of the star and crescent, a reclining antelope with very high horns. |
| 9219 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl With lip spout Broken into several pieces White limestone Stone type LXXVII. |
| 9236 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Dish Limestone White Broken & mended Stone type XCIV |
| 9265 | (none) | 1928,1009.59 | (none) | Button seal Black shale? One side flat, the other convex On the convex side 4 sets of concentric rings Pl. 62 vol. IV L.BM. 120576 |
| 9266 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Limestone White Subject not clear. A seated god, a squatting lion, vertical posts, a god behind the bards of a gate? And a second standing god. |
| 9355 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Plaque and shell fragments Plaque is square, made of shale, and set with five shell circles in one face like a domino number 5. Two of the circles missing. Fragments of shell plaques, one bearing traces of red paint and engraved with the figure of an eagle attacking the back of a bull ? A fresh water shell L.008 from the valve end. |
| 9510 | (none) | (none) | (none) | 2 Shale pieces for Inlay. One a disk with a shallow diametrical groove on one side, the other a circular piece, flat on one side, convex on the other. Originally both may have been fitted together as an inlaid eye for a statue. Criss-cross impressions on each are perhaps to be attributed to a fibrous material by which the two were originally fixed together. |
| 9663 | (none) | 1928,1010.437 | (none) | Bowl. White Limestone. Type XXX |
| 9733 | (none) | 1928,1010.244 | (none) | Cylinder seal Limestone? Grey. Subject Lions & gazelles crossed. |
| 9793 | (none) | 1928,1010.435 | (none) | Limestone Bowl. (broken) The stone very badly decayed and all the surface perished. |
| 9802 | (none) | 1928,1010.438 | (none) | Bowl. White limestone. |
| 9835 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl Limestone White Type LIV |
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Breccia - Chert/Flint - Limestone - Sandstone - Shale
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