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)
9858 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Grey limestone. Scene of worship within the gates of a shrine. Seated god with an attendant carrying a bucket behind him. The seated god greets a standing figure. The scene occurs behind gates consisting of two posts stuck into the ground connected by loop-shaped attachments.
9914 (none) (none) (none) Offering-table White limestone Only the stem, and that broken and imperfect [drawing]
10051A (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowheads Chisel edged Judging from the height at which they were found, in a cluster against the side of the grave shaft, the arrows had been 030 long [drawing] 1:1
10051B (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowheads Chisel edged Judging from the height at which they were found, in a cluster against the side of the grave shaft, the arrows had been 030 long [drawing] 1:1
10051C (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowheads Chisel edged Judging from the height at which they were found, in a cluster against the side of the grave shaft, the arrows had been 030 long [drawing] 1:1
10078 (none) (none) (none) Whetstone (?) Sausage-shaped: made of a coralline limestone (?) Dark bluish grey with white annumitic markings
10169 (none) 1928,1010.408 (none) Flint Obsidian? Translucent Both sides serrated Triangular in section [drawing 1:1]
10400 (none) (none) (none) Head of Priest. Shaven and shorn. Dark grey limestone. Nose chipped. Missing below neck. Hole 5mm in diameter pierced vertically through neck to join the head to a body which doubtless consisted of some other material. Good modelling. Eyes and eyebrows heavily pronounced, coventional eyes shaped. Heavy nose, pursed up lips and small but pronounced chin. Head and figures typically Sumerian - dolichocephalic. [drawing]
10422 (none) 1928,1010.417 (none) Whetstone of white stone nearly rectangular
10574 (none) 1928,1010.227 (none) Staff-head(?) White shell A plain disk, almost flat, below which come strung on the staff 4 rings alternately of black shale and shell. Below them again were 3 shell disks like spindle whorls each with a black ring above: these were much smaller, diam. 0022 as against 034 for the upper rings.
10589B (none) 1928,1010.441 (none) Group A/ Beads, gold, silver, and lapis double conoids. B/ Bowl of white limestone, surface poor. Type__ C/
10819E (none) (none) (none) Tomb Group. A. [A and F] Two copper pins, both broken, one with a plain the other with a fluted lapis ball head. Tip of second missing. Type V B. [B and G] pair of cockle shells containing black and green paint. C. necklace of lapis and silver double conoids and carnelian ring beads. For order see Field Notes. D. [D.1-.2] Pair of silver earrings 2 1/2 coils E. A limestone bowl. Type XII
10822C (none) (none) (none) Tomb Group. A. Silver pin with fluted lapis ball head and fluted gold cap. Type V. B. Lapis lazuli cylinder seal, 2 registers: Upper: scorpion, kneeling hero fighting rampant lions, (a panther?), a striped zebu, and behind them a standing skirted male figure. Lower: gate of a shrine and within it seated figures drinking through straws, 3 seated figures, and 2 standing attendants. C. Limestone Bowl. Type XII D. Necklace of silver and lapis double conoids with 3 large facetted beads, 2 carnelian, 1 gold. For order see Field Note.
10973 (none) (none) (none) White limestone Bowl. Broken.
11149 (none) (none) (none) Pestle. Limestone. White. Shaped like a truncated cone with convex ends. [drawing]
11155 (none) (none) (none) Silver Ostrich Shell. Originally decorated on base and round the rim with incrustation in shell, lapis, and red stone. All ornament gone: the Shell much distorted and broken.
11162C (none) (none) (none) (A) Gaming-board. Set in silver. Shell plaques engraved with lapis borders engraved with animal scenes, except for 2 in rosettes. Only part of it was found, giving in all: 13 plaques of which 6 were still in their setting and 7 loose: these have been reset, those in original order in the top 2 rows, the rest below, and one rosette piece omitted. Orig. W. 120mm(?); plaques 32 x 40mm; 35mm square. With this must go: (B) Gaming pieces, of white shell, square with engraved scenes, in all 9 and one half piece. (C) Gaming pieces, circular, of balck shale with 5 white dots, diam. 25mm, 3 in all. (D) one white disk with blue spot. (E) Small balls of lapis, 8 in all. (F) 23 small white balls (these are perhaps counters)? (G) 3 lapis dice, of usual solid triangle with inlay dots at 2 points. (H) 6 square men, black and white spots. (NB: Some of the gaming pieces B & C were found in Chamber B.) [I] [Not assigned] (J) [J, L-M] 3 slender rods, square in section, of ivory (?) with engraved patterns on one edge and concentric circles on the other. L. 65mm, W. 4mm (K) in the inside of the board (a box) was a complete set of men, 7 white and 7 black, the former with animal scenes, the latter with 5 white dots.
11204 (none) (none) (none) Beads. (7). Large lapis double conoid; oolite? barrel bead; 2 gold ring beads; 2 carnelian ball beads; 1 rock crystal double conoid.
11412 (none) (none) (none) Beads. 3 only. 1-carnelian bugle; 1-long limestone lentoid; 1-red and white breccia (?) found tied round the left upper arm.
11416 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Limestone? Very poor work. [drawing]
11456 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Black and white breccia. Subject: animals and men fighting. Inscription GUR-na. [drawing] HC..6.
11469 30-12-98 (none) (none) Stone vase. White limestone (irregular in shape) cracked but complete. Type LII. [drawing]
11496 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. Black & white breccia (?) palm tree & 4 figures.
11498 (none) 1929,1017.674 (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone. Type XXIII. [drawing]
11506 (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowhead. [drawing 1:1]

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