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)
16268N 35-1-404 (none) (none) [G-N] Stone pounders. Pebbles, mostly natural shape, of hard stone, of different sorts, several of them bearing marks when they have been used for hammering gold, or where gold has been hammered on them. Most have been split by the heat when the temple was burnt. Amongst them are [O-Q] 3 worked tools, pounders. [drawing]
18976 35-1-5 (none) (none) Cylinder seal. Light yellowish stone. 2 heroes fighting animals.
19087 35-1-523 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Rough white limestone. Type 102.
19050 35-1-524 (none) (none) Stone vase. White limestone. Poor condition. Type 80.
19633 35-1-529 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 3
19547 35-1-532 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 3
19676 35-1-534 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 4
19838 35-1-535 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Coarse limestone. JN 2
19363 35-1-536 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 2.
19287 35-1-537 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Type J.N. 2
19962 35-1-540 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Limestone. JN 3 = 24
19810 35-1-541 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 3
19288 35-1-543 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type 5A (incomplete).
19500 35-1-544 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Limestone. JN 3
19420 35-1-547 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 3
19926 35-1-548 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 5B
19454 35-1-549 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Pink limestone. Type JN 6a
19900 35-1-550 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Light pink limestone. JN 3
19520 35-1-551 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Fine white limestone. Type JN 17
19375 35-1-552 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 13
19373 35-1-554 (none) (none) Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 17
19797 35-1-555 (none) (none) Stone vase [crossed out] bowl. Veined limestone. JN 6b
19562 35-1-559 (none) (none) Stone bowl. Fine limestone. Type JN 48
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]
19213D 35-1-560 (none) (none) Group: (A) Gold double conoids, lapis double conoids. (B) Copper pin, Type 1, with lapis ball head capped with gold; broken. (C) [Not assigned] (D) Limestone bowl. Type 47. (E) White calcite bowl. Type 54: imperfect.

Related Terms

Breccia - Chert/Flint - Sandstone - Shale

Child Terms

Oolite - Travertine