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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 18681 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. [Type] 27. [drawing] |
| 18684 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. Imperfect. [Type] 8. [drawing] |
| 18685 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. Imperfect. [Type] 22. [drawing] |
| 18686 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. Thick and roughly made: the rim cracked and warped completely out of shape. Flattened base and convex side. |
| 18689 | 33-35-106 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. [Type] 12. [drawing] | |
| 18697 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Seal. White limestone. A cylindrical cone cut segmentally on the broad part of the convex face a a squatting gazelle. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18699A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Weights. (A) Stela-shaped. Limestone. Type XXI. [drawing] (B) Duck weight, pinkish pebble. Type VI. (C) Duck weight, quartzite. On the side, inscription. [drawing] (D) Duck weight, quartzite (?). (E) Duck weight, grey pebble. Inscription (D) [reference to drawing labeled D on catalog card] on the back. (F) Lentoid, fine grained limestone with inscription F [reference to drawing labeled F on catalog card] Type II. (G) Lentoid, black diorite. (H) Lentoid, grey pebble. Type II [unclear what object this type refers to]. |
| 18709A | 33-35-122A | (none) | (none) | [A-P] Polished stone celts. 16 in all. |
| 18715 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Pink limestone. Broken and imperfect. [Type] 4. [drawing] |
| 18716 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Limestone. Imperfect. [Type] 16. [drawing] |
| 18778A | 35-1-56 | (none) | (none) | Stone weights. A-F a set of five [Actually six]. (A) pebble colored, inscribed. [drawing of weight and inscription] Type XXI. [drawing] (B) oval, grey pebble, inscribed. Weight 1015.65, ratio 2m, unit 8.46 [drawing of inscription] (C) Same shape as B, inscribed grey pebble. [drawing of inscription] (D) Same shape as B, inscribed grey pebble. [drawing of inscription] (E) duck weight, inscribed grey pebble. [drawing of inscription] Type VI. Weight 169.62, ratio 20s, unit 8.48 1/3 mina (F) duck weight, dark pebble, inscribed. [drawing of inscription] | |
| 18837 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Mace head. White limestone; inscribed. |
| 18864 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of statutette. Coarse limestone. Female head with the hair in a chignon and confined by a broad fillet. The eyes were inlaid: face much damaged and surface of stone very bad. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18900 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. Lapis triangles and date-shpaed, 4 tubular; carnelian balls; larger limestone(?) balls; chalcedony flattened date-shaped. |
| 18901 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 3 large crystal flattened date-shaped; 1 limestone ditto; 1 agate barrel; 3 steatite rings. |
| 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. |
| 18991 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone mortar. Coarse white limestone. Type 37a. |
| 18995 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads: large chalcedony date-shaped, chalcedony balls, granite flattened date-shaped, limestone ditto, crystal ditto, crystal, carnelian and chalcedony balls, silver balls. |
| 19023 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Oblong, with a short handle at one end and fin-like ledges on each side; broken and a fragment missing. Type RC.102 |
| 19024 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Broken. Broken and rivetted in antiquity. Type 41. |
| 19041 | 35-1-561 | (none) | (none) | Limestone bowl. Type 42. | |
| 19043 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Grey limestone. Type 19a. roughly made. |
| 19050 | 35-1-524 | (none) | (none) | Stone vase. White limestone. Poor condition. Type 80. | |
| 19061 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type 43. |
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Breccia - Chert/Flint - Sandstone - Shale
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