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)
12771O 31-17-319J (none) (none) Objects. (A) Miniature white calcite bowl (the rim chipped) thus [reference to drawing] [Type RC12]. [drawing 1:1] (B) Shallow bowl of basic diorite (?). (C) Fragment of stone bowl (?) re-used and pierced with 3 holes: basic diorite (?). [drawing] (D) Miniature square box roughly made from light drab clay. (E) Miniature clay bowl. (F) Miniature goblet in light drab clay thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2] (G) Wheelmade pot of pinkish clay with pin-hole orifice at neck (neck broken off). [drawing] (H) Clay bead (?) or handle (?) rough cylinder longitudinally pierced. [U.12771I not assigned] (J) Oval pebble burnisher. Thin and flat. (K) Flint chip. (L) Flint saw. (M) Part of clay jar-sealing with indistinct traces of relief. (N) Clay jar sealing with rows of animals. [drawing 1:1] (O) Flint hoe (?) of T.O. type [Tel Obaid].
12774J.1 31-17-321K (none) (none) Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals.
(none) 31-17-352A (none) (none) [U number Not assigned in field]
13048 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type. See field note.
13051C (none) (none) (none) Group of objects. [A] (1) Painted potsherds. [B] (2) Animal bones . [C] (3) Fragment of limestone. [D] (4) Clay stopper for vase. Unbaked.
13515 31-17-117 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Calcite. Grey. 2 bird headed men and 2 rampant antelopes. Primitive cutting.
13533 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone. Type XII. [drawing]
13555 (none) (none) (none) Flint arrow(?) head. Tip missing. [drawing]
13575 31-16-414 (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White calcite. Nicked rim. Type XLIII. [drawing]
13579 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type CXIV. [drawing]
13706 (none) (none) (none) Flint core. [drawing 1:1]
13716 31-16-517 (none) (none) Fragment of Obsidian lid. Ground down to a thinness of one millimetre, originally a dish about d. 80, of greying obisidian. [drawing]
13717 31-16-483 (none) (none) Fragment of a small bowl. (Steatite?) Round the side in very low relief is a moulded rope pattern: from this rise imitation loop handles modeled in low relief, the tops of the loops comming to the rim of the bowl. [drawing]
13723 31-16-505 (none) (none) Weight of grey stone. Lentoid, with flattened base. [drawing 1:1] Type II
13730 31-16-470 (none) (none) Pounding-stone or hand hammer. Pebble. A flattened sphere; on one flattened side bruises due to hammering.
13732 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase. White limestone. [drawing 1:1]
13738 31-16-471 (none) (none) Pounder. White limestone. Not in catalog. [drawing]
13753 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. In antiquity broken in half and mended with 3 rivets (rivet-holes very large) The base not clearly defined. JN14 new. [drawing]
13754 31-16-453 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. The edges much chipped. ?[Type] RC20a. Jnu. [drawing]
13755 31-16-451 (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone (restored from fragments). Jnu. Type X (RC20a) [drawing]
13756 31-16-434 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone (restored from fragments). JN19. Type XV ? RC22b [drawing]
13757 31-16-435 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone (restored from fragments, but imperfect). JN19. Type XV ? RC22b. [drawing]
13768 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. JN24. [Type] XIX (RC15a) [drawing]
13770 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type XXI. [drawing]
13771 31-16-420 (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone. Type VIII. [drawing]

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Igneous - Metamorphic

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