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)
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.
9539 (none) (none) B17147 Vase Oolite? Grey Probably cut down in antiquity from a tall spill vase. Surface badly chipped and pitted Type L1.
9663 (none) 1928,1010.437 (none) Bowl. White Limestone. Type XXX
9664 (none) (none) B17182 Stone bowl White limestone Bath-shaped Type XXI
9688 (none) (none) B16884 Cylinder seal Green stone In very bad condition Apparently a presentation scene
9733 (none) 1928,1010.244 (none) Cylinder seal Limestone? Grey. Subject Lions & gazelles crossed.
977 (none) (none) B14978 Stone bowl.
9793 (none) 1928,1010.435 (none) Limestone Bowl. (broken) The stone very badly decayed and all the surface perished.
9794 (none) (none) B17141 Limestone Bowl. Broken into 5 pieces. Surface decayed.
9802 (none) 1928,1010.438 (none) Bowl. White limestone.
9835 (none) (none) (none) Stone Bowl Limestone White Type LIV
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]

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Igneous - Metamorphic

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