This rock ranges in color from white to yellow to pink to red to gray to black. It is usually used as building material and in statues.

Objects: Limestone Export: JSON - XML - CSV Clay Seals and Sealings

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
17340 31-43-11 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1]
16211 31-43-1 (none) (none) Stamp seal. Pink limestone. In the form of a recumbent calf; on the flat back a rough design of 2 animals done with drill-holes and engraved lines. This is an early Sumerian piece which is found ina Persian period grave, and must have been an antiquity. [drawing 1:1]
(none) 30-12-65 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) 31-17-108 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) 31-17-112 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) 31-43-12 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) 31-43-14 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) 31-43-15 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) 31-43-16 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) 31-43-78 (none) (none) Unknown
(none) (none) (none) B16322 Unknown
(none) (none) (none) B16328 Unknown
(none) (none) (none) B16335 Unknown
(none) (none) (none) B16336 Unknown
(none) (none) (none) B16337 Unknown
(none) (none) (none) B16879 Unknown
11600A 30-12-399B (none) (none) [A-B] Cylinder Seal & Pin. White shell cylinder, geometric pattern. Found with the copper pin plain head. [drawing]
368A (none) (none) B14964 [A] Stone mould, broken, for making clay figurines. Scene: a god seated on a stool wearing the seven-horned cap, with left arm and hand stretched out towards a standing figure in a plain robe wearing a single horn: above two crescents. (B) Second fragment; female figure standing upright (Baghdad)
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Related Terms

Breccia - Chert/Flint - Sandstone - Shale

Child Terms

Oolite - Travertine