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)
	11600A	30-12-399B	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Cylinder Seal & Pin. White shell cylinder, geometric pattern. Found with the copper pin plain head. [drawing]
	13515	31-17-117	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Calcite. Grey. 2 bird headed men and 2 rampant antelopes. Primitive cutting.
	14013	31-17-121	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
	16179	31-43-28	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Green steatite. Presentation scene: enthroned god and two standing figures.
	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]
	16547	31-43-51	(none)	(none)	Limestone cylinder seal Nin-es(?)-ba-na, Son of ... H.C. 30/II, 3.
	16555	31-43-20, 31-43-20	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal, white calcite. Ga-ad-i(?)-li(?)-a, daughter of Ah(?)-na-nu-um H.C. 30/II, 11
	16620	31-43-13	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White limestone. Part of design obliterated. Presentation scene - originally 4 standing figures (3) only remain) before an enthroned god. Last figure carries a lamp(?). Crescent Moon.
	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]
	17015	31-43-52	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Steatite. Black. Presentation scene. 3 figures before a standing goddess. Goose
	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]
	17678	32-40-324	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White limestone. Eye; joined ladders. On photo: U.17679.
	17726	32-40-330	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. 2 men fighting a lion.
	17850	32-40-333, 32-40-333	(none)	(none)	Cylinder (seal?) unpierced. White limestone with 4 columns of inscription. Two names. NU-UR-KU-BI son of DUG-GA-AN-SA and E-MU-MA-NI-DA son of NU-UR-KU-BI. HC 1931 / 1
	18248	33-35-172	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Pink limestone. Two men fighting a lion. Poor work and in poor condition.
	18923	35-1-2	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. A hero, and fighting animals. Archaic: very much worn and defaced.
	18976	35-1-5	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Light yellowish stone. 2 heroes fighting animals.
	(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

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