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

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
8175 (none) (none) (none) Stone vase. White limestone. In the mouth is fixed a copper bowl diam 0075, ht 0055, broken. Type LVI.
8190 (none) (none) B17036 Stone bowl. [drawing] Type XII, but with rounded base. Photo 841
8195 (none) (none) B17039 Stone vase Miniature White limestone Roughly made, apparently cut down from a larger vase. Rim broken.
8196 (none) (none) B17158 Stone bowl. White limestone. Type LX
820 (none) (none) B14979 Stone bowl of coarse whitish limestone, almost of marble.
8204 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Hemispherical with nicked edge. Type XII.
8206 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Broken. Type LX.
8207 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Broken. Type XII.
8217 (none) (none) (none) Offering table of white limestone. Made in 2 pieces, a flat plate and a foot, fastened together with bitumen. (card received from Mallowan 1976. TE Reade)
8219 (none) (none) B17045 Stone bowl. White limestone. Type LX. photo___
822 (none) 1923,1110.61 (none) Stone bowl of coarse grey limestone, chip out of rim.
8220 (none) 1928,1009.518 (none) Stone bowl. Whtie limestone. Type XIX.
8223 (none) (none) (none) Offering table. White limestone. Only the stem left, and that not perfect. Scratched design of palm leaves(?) [drawing]
8225 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone with nicked edge. Type XXV.
8237 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type _.
8238 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type __
8239 (none) 1928,1009.420 (none) Stone vase. White limestone. The sides vertically fluted. Type LXXII. Photo 841
8242 (none) (none) (none) Stone bowl. Fine quality white limestone. Type LXXV.
8249 (none) 1928,1009.425 (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. The outer face much decayed. Broken and imperfect. Type LX
825 (none) (none) (none) Stone pestle. of hard whitish limestone.
8252 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Limestone. White. Part of rim missing. Stone type LXVIII
8257 (none) (none) (none) Bowl. Limestone. White. 2 lug handles below rim on either side of vase (4 in all). [drawing] Stone type LXXXII, variant double instead of single lugs.
8260 (none) (none) B17171 Bowl. Limestone. White. Indented rim. Small portion of rim missing. Stone type XLIII
8273 (none) 1928,1009.426 (none) Bowl. Limestone. Indented rim. Stone type LX.
8276 (none) (none) (none) Offering table. Limestone. White. Broken and fragmentary. Made in 2 pieces, a flat plate and a foot fastened together with bitumen. cf. U.8217 similar type.

Related Terms

Breccia - Chert/Flint - Sandstone - Shale

Child Terms

Oolite - Travertine