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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2761D | (none) | (none) | B16676 | Ur-Nammu Stela. Stone stele fragments. Fine limestone: six fragments, [following text is struck through] giving horizontal division of stele. Upper two bear lower part of skirt & two finely modelled feet & conventional river of Ea, seated on throne. Lower register divine headdress, spear (?) & tree. Whole of fine workmanship. Upper register fragg. A. & C.: lower B. [end strike-through] For details see following page. In text: Ur-Nammu Stela and Kassite period 4. (A) Division between registers, one foot of top register figure and top of tree in lower register. (B) do. With part of throne top register & god's headdress in lower. (C) 2nd foot & part of skirt & throne of top register fig. (D) part of throne top register. (E) Lower part of headdress of god (2nd reg.) & hair. (F) Rest of god from 2nd reg. seated on throne before conventional tree in pot into which king is pouring libation (this connects with U.3264A) 3rd reg. upper parts of 3 figg: minor deity introducing king who bears mason's tools supported behind by priest or slave. | |
| 2761E | (none) | (none) | B16676 | Ur-Nammu Stela. Stone stele fragments. Fine limestone: six fragments, [following text is struck through] giving horizontal division of stele. Upper two bear lower part of skirt & two finely modelled feet & conventional river of Ea, seated on throne. Lower register divine headdress, spear (?) & tree. Whole of fine workmanship. Upper register fragg. A. & C.: lower B. [end strike-through] For details see following page. In text: Ur-Nammu Stela and Kassite period 4. (A) Division between registers, one foot of top register figure and top of tree in lower register. (B) do. With part of throne top register & god's headdress in lower. (C) 2nd foot & part of skirt & throne of top register fig. (D) part of throne top register. (E) Lower part of headdress of god (2nd reg.) & hair. (F) Rest of god from 2nd reg. seated on throne before conventional tree in pot into which king is pouring libation (this connects with U.3264A) 3rd reg. upper parts of 3 figg: minor deity introducing king who bears mason's tools supported behind by priest or slave. | |
| 2761F | (none) | (none) | B16676 | Ur-Nammu Stela. Stone stele fragments. Fine limestone: six fragments, [following text is struck through] giving horizontal division of stele. Upper two bear lower part of skirt & two finely modelled feet & conventional river of Ea, seated on throne. Lower register divine headdress, spear (?) & tree. Whole of fine workmanship. Upper register fragg. A. & C.: lower B. [end strike-through] For details see following page. In text: Ur-Nammu Stela and Kassite period 4. (A) Division between registers, one foot of top register figure and top of tree in lower register. (B) do. With part of throne top register & god's headdress in lower. (C) 2nd foot & part of skirt & throne of top register fig. (D) part of throne top register. (E) Lower part of headdress of god (2nd reg.) & hair. (F) Rest of god from 2nd reg. seated on throne before conventional tree in pot into which king is pouring libation (this connects with U.3264A) 3rd reg. upper parts of 3 figg: minor deity introducing king who bears mason's tools supported behind by priest or slave. | |
| 9539 | (none) | (none) | B17147 | Vase Oolite? Grey Probably cut down in antiquity from a tall spill vase. Surface badly chipped and pitted Type L1. | |
 | 8733 | 87-28-14 | (none) | (none) | Vase. Limestone. White. Broken in 7 pieces. Part of rim missing. Broken and rivetted in antiquity and stuck together with bitumen. Rivet holes filled up with a white paste that may be burnt gypsum now called plaster of Paris. Portions of copper rivets still intact in rivet holes. Stone type XLV. |
| 7946 | (none) | 1928,1009.501 | (none) | Vase. Limestone. White. Stone type LVI. |
| 16239J | (none) | 1931,1010.181 | (none) | Weight 7.232 grs. ovoid (chipped) limestone. yellow 1 sheqel(?) (nominal weight 8.416 grs.) Type I. |
| 16239E | (none) | 1931,1010.178 | (none) | Weight 2.88 grs. Steatite. Ovoid. Greenish-black. 1 minette (nominal weight 2.805 grs) Type I. |
| 7530 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Weight Limestone. Grey. Lentoid, flat on one sides. III marks on cylindrical portion. Type II. |
| 13723 | 31-16-505 | (none) | (none) | Weight of grey stone. Lentoid, with flattened base. [drawing 1:1] Type II | |
| 16416 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Weight Ovoid, yellow limestone(?). To be weighed. Type I. |
| 16429V | (none) | 1931,1010.184 | (none) | Weight. Steatite. Blackish-gray. Bugle [crossed out] cylindrical. Weight=0.576 grs = 4 "little sheqels" (nominally=0.560) Type III |
| 16239V | 31-43-263 | (none) | (none) | Weight. Ovoid. Diorite(?), pale grey. Inscribed. + (= MAS = one-half) Half a Mina(?) To be weighed. Type II. | |
| 16604 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Weight? Limestone, oviod. Perforated top. Type I. [drawing] |
| 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]. |
| 18699F | (none) | (none) | (none) | Weights. (A) Stela-shaped. Limestone. Type XXI. [drawing] (B) Duck weight, pinkish pebble. Type VI. [drawing] (C) Duck weight, quartzite. On the side, inscription. [drawing] (D) Duck weight, quartzite (?). [drawing] (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]. (G) Lentoid, black diorite. (H) Lentoid, grey pebble. Type II [unclear what object this type refers to]. |
| 10422 | (none) | 1928,1010.417 | (none) | Whetstone of white stone nearly rectangular |
| 10078 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Whetstone (?) Sausage-shaped: made of a coralline limestone (?) Dark bluish grey with white annumitic markings |
| 11801 | (none) | 1929,1017.391 | (none) | Whetstone. Greenish stone. |
| 10973 | (none) | (none) | (none) | White limestone Bowl. Broken. |
| 8047 | (none) | (none) | B17163 | White limestone pot. With almost vertical carinated sides. Type LXX 8. | |
| 12251.2 | 30-12-504 | (none) | (none) | [.1-.2] Necklace. Lapis, Carnelian, silver beads: rings, balls and double conoids. |
| 16249A | (none) | 1931,1010.113 | (none) | [A-B are subdivisions based on BMdb] Duck-Weight 24.32 Grs brownish-gray Limestone Weight 1670.48 ratio 3 unit 9.28 Probably 3 sheqels (nominal weight 25.248 GRS) Type VI |
| 13035D | (none) | 1929,1017.464 | (none) | [A-B] 2 haematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum] |
| 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 |
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