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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 16418 | (none) | 1931,1010.112 | (none) | Fragment of duck weight Grey limestone, right side broken away. Type VI. |
| 16429C | (none) | 1931,1010.111 | (none) | Duck weight. Haematite. Grey. Broken and repaired. [drawing] To be weighed. Type VI |
| 16927A | (none) | 1931,1010.11 | (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] |
| 16927B | (none) | 1931,1010.10 | (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] |
| 16424 | (none) | 1931,1010.1 | (none) | Statue. White limestone, with eyes inlaid with shell and lapis; traces of black paint on hair. Female figure standing, hands clasped in front of the body. Nose broken, one eye pupil restored. The hair is simply treated with curls across the forehead, then a broad bandeau; the back hair is brought up & over the bandeau in a small chignon and hangs in a heavy wave above the shoulders & at back of head. She wears a plain chiton & heavy cloak falling from the shoulders over the arms in straight lines to the feet. The feet are missing, the base of the stone being broken away; when found the statue was let into a round baase and bitumen had been plastered round it & smoothed down so as to make a spreading skirt at the expense of loss of design to the figure, which was this reduced from an original height ofc. 54mm to 37mm (the bitumen has been kept on by waxing). It had also been broken in half and mended with bitumen. The workmanship is not very good, and the decayed surface of the stone does it less than justice - but the type is a good classical one. The statue was obviously an antiquity given a place of honor in a temple which must date to circ. BC; so that the date of the statue might well be as early as the 3rd dynasty of UR. |
| 11949A | (none) | 1930,1213.574a | (none) | [A-B] 2 Stone Bowls. White limestone (one smashed) One was inverted over the other and between them was a [C] cochle shell containing light green paint Type XXIII |
| 14229B | (none) | 1930,1213.544 | (none) | [A-F] 6 Weights (?) [A-B] 2 Hematite, 1 spherical and 1 cylindrical. [C-F] 4 small pebbles |
| 14229D | (none) | 1930,1213.544 | (none) | [A-F] 6 Weights (?) [A-B] 2 Hematite, 1 spherical and 1 cylindrical. [C-F] 4 small pebbles |
| 14229E | (none) | 1930,1213.544 | (none) | [A-F] 6 Weights (?) [A-B] 2 Hematite, 1 spherical and 1 cylindrical. [C-F] 4 small pebbles |
| 13774 | (none) | 1930,1213.270 | (none) | Stone bowl. White Limestone. With slight base and border groove. Type CXIV. [drawing] |
| 11901 | (none) | 1929,1017.689 | (none) | Stone Vase. Limestone, white. [Drawing] |
| 11731 | (none) | 1929,1017.688 | (none) | Stone vase. White calcite. | |
| 12007 | (none) | 1929,1017.687 | (none) | Stone Vase. Whitish grey limestone. Type CXXVII. [drawing] |
| 11927 | (none) | 1929,1017.682 | (none) | Stone White calcite. Spouted pot [Drawing] [Annotated] Type CXXV | |
| 11498 | (none) | 1929,1017.674 | (none) | Stone Bowl. White limestone. Type XXIII. [drawing] |
| 12680E | (none) | 1929,1017.672 | (none) | Group: [A] (1) Copper axe Type XXII. [B] (2) Copper reticule containing manicure tools on ring. Traces of matting on reticule. [C] (3) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Bird headed man and rampant animals. [D] (4) Beads - Worn round forehead? 2 carnelian bugles - 1 lapis lentoid. [E] (5) Stone bowl. White limestone. [Type] XXV. [drawing] |
| 12315 | (none) | 1929,1017.671 | (none) | Stone Bowl. Limestone. Rim chipped. Type CXIV. [drawing] |
| 12492 | (none) | 1929,1017.670 | (none) | Bowl of white limestone. The edge of the rim nicked on the outside. Type XLIII. [drawing] |
| 11518 | (none) | 1929,1017.665 | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone with slight base & 2 small horizontal lugs. Type CXVII. [drawing] |
| 12695C | (none) | 1929,1017.634 | (none) | Group: [A-B] 1) Two silver earrings: one of normal, small, lunate type 1 1/2 coils; the others also consists of 1 1/2 coils but one end consist of a broad and thin elliptical bend thus - [drawing] [C] 2) Copper bowl. Hemispherical [D] 3) Stone bowl. Containing traces of a reddish pigment? Limestone. [drawing] | |
| 13035D | (none) | 1929,1017.464 | (none) | [A-B] 2 haematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum] |
| 11801 | (none) | 1929,1017.391 | (none) | Whetstone. Greenish stone. |
| 11751 | (none) | 1929,1017.348 | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell, the ends inlaid with lapis disks. Very much decayed. 2 heroes & 4 animals: man on the left strikes at a rampant bull(?) turned away from him & grappling with a lion(?) this lions body crosses that of a second lion who attacks a bull which is seized from behind by a figure half human and half bull. Between the two human figures is a double column inscription, upper register only:-Mes-kalam-dug(or sar) Lugal. | |
| 10589B | (none) | 1928,1010.441 | (none) | Group A/ Beads, gold, silver, and lapis double conoids. B/ Bowl of white limestone, surface poor. Type__ C/ |
| 8718 | (none) | 1928,1010.440 | (none) | Card Missing |
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