Limestone

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.

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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)
	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)
	11600A	30-12-399B	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Cylinder Seal & Pin. White shell cylinder, geometric pattern. Found with the copper pin plain head. [drawing]
	(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
	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]
	17340	31-43-11	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Limestone (?) Grey. Oval. One standing figure. [drawing 1:1]
	17662	32-40-319	(none)	(none)	Seal. Pink limestone. [drawing 1:1]
	16547	31-43-51	(none)	(none)	Limestone cylinder seal Nin-es(?)-ba-na, Son of ... H.C. 30/II, 3.
	16927G	31-43-7	(none)	(none)	Group: objects found together and belonging to a manufacturer of cylinder seals. (A) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with first sketches of 3 standing figures; (B) Limestone fragment, a trial piece with one standing figure nearly finished; (C) Uncut and unpierced cylinders of shell, steatite and limestone; (D) Unfinished beads of rock crystal; (E) Part of an eye of a statue; etc. (F) Limestone fragment a trial piece with the lower parts of 2 standing nude male figures (this was brought in separately, cf. U.16994) (G) Square of red limestone, sculptors trial pieces with unfinished figures of man and dog. [These objects were relettered on the card as follows: C=E, D=F, E=G, F=C, and G=D. Entries in this database, however, follow original lettering]
	8056B	(none)	(none)	B16891	Cylinder seals of white shell. All in very bad condition. A: 4 animals, the centre two heraldically crossed, and a tree? or man? B: unrecognisable. C: unrecognisable.
	14013	31-17-121	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
	17678	32-40-324	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679.
	6106	(none)	(none)	B16296, B16296	Cylinder seal. White frit. Unpierced. Inscribed: Lugal-nu-zu aon of E-te-nin-ka ilSin. E.

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