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)
11498 (none) 1929,1017.674 (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone. Type XXIII. [drawing]
11506 (none) (none) (none) Flint arrowhead. [drawing 1:1]
11518 (none) 1929,1017.665 (none) Stone bowl. White limestone with slight base & 2 small horizontal lugs. Type CXVII. [drawing]
11529 30-12-75 (none) (none) Stone vase. Spill-vase of white calcite. LXXXVI. [drawing]
11537 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. Limestone (broken & in poor condition) small flattened base. Type LXVII. [drawing]
11567 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White limestone. Surface rather decayed. Type LVI. [drawing]
11600A 30-12-399B (none) (none) [A-B] Cylinder Seal & Pin. White shell cylinder, geometric pattern. Found with the copper pin plain head. [drawing]
11678 (none) (none) (none) Mace Head. Limestone? Gypsum? On the top, lion devouring another beast(?) On the sides bearded bulls. Inscription(much broken) Dedication to Shamash possibly by Nannar-?(?) son or daughter of AN-BU (?)(of Mari)?
11716 30-12-91 (none) (none) Limestone Bowl. Hemispherical with small flattened base & nicked edge.
11731 (none) 1929,1017.688 (none) Stone vase. White calcite.
11751 (none) 1929,1017.348 (none) Cylinder Seal. White shell, the ends inlaid with lapis disks. Very much decayed. 2 heroes & 4 animals: man on the left strikes at a rampant bull(?) turned away from him & grappling with a lion(?) this lions body crosses that of a second lion who attacks a bull which is seized from behind by a figure half human and half bull. Between the two human figures is a double column inscription, upper register only:-Mes-kalam-dug(or sar) Lugal.
11801 (none) 1929,1017.391 (none) Whetstone. Greenish stone.
11819 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone, straight-sided (broken).
11829 (none) 1929,1017.475 (none) Flint arrowhead.
11831 (none) (none) (none) Limestone Bowl or trough. Rough.
11841 30-12-549 (none) (none) Palette. Soft fossiliferous limestone in form of a shell. Outside decorated with a mountain pattern: the inside is divided into 3 compartments containing the remains of white pigment.
11849 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl. White limestone (broken) hemisperical with flattened base.
11858 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase. Grey-white limestone.
11863 (none) (none) (none) Cylinder Seal. White limestone not bored: roughly engraved. 2 registers: above, banquet and rampant lion; below, Im-dugud.
11883C (none) (none) (none) [A-C] 3 Roundels, [A-B] 2 of shell, [C] 1 of shale, [D] and an oval-topped shell button inlaid with a rosette of red & blue petals. D. 220mm [E] Broken pin of type VI, but with head missing; possibly this is all one composite pin-head, or perhaps only the roundels are such, as they would give just the effect of a lapis ball set in gold or silver. [drawing]
11898 (none) (none) (none) Stone Vase. White limestone. [Drawing] Much warped; The rim diam. is 011 one way and only 009 the other. Type 78
11901 (none) 1929,1017.689 (none) Stone Vase. Limestone, white. [Drawing]
11926 (none) (none) (none) Limestone Bowl. (chipped, and the surface badly decayed).
11927 (none) 1929,1017.682 (none) Stone White calcite. Spouted pot [Drawing] [Annotated] Type CXXV
11928A.1 (none) (none) (none) [A.1-.3] Limestone Offering Dish [B-F] 5 Copper Daggers & [G-H] 2 Whetstones. All type V with central rib-shape of gold dagger-blades.

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Igneous - Metamorphic

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