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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19041 | 35-1-561 | (none) | (none) | Limestone bowl. Type 42. | |
| 18778C | 35-1-57 | (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] | |
| 19393 | 35-1-578 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Fine white limestone. Type JN 11 | |
| 18778D | 35-1-58 | (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] | |
| 19560 | 35-1-581 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 3 | |
| 19909 | 35-1-587 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 3 | |
| 19697 | 35-1-588 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 1 | |
| 19383 | 35-1-593 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. Pink limestone. Type JN 12 | |
| 19813 | 35-1-594 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type _ | |
| 19735 | 35-1-595 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 10 | |
| 20008 | 35-1-597 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. JN | |
| 19606 | 35-1-598 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 6 | |
| 19890 | 35-1-599 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 17 | |
| 19604 | 35-1-602 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 4 | |
| 19464 | 35-1-609 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type JN 10 | |
| 16268P | 35-1-61 | (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] | |
| 19534 | 35-1-633 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. Type ... (in fragments) | |
| 19997 | 35-1-638 | (none) | (none) | Stone bowl. White limestone. JN 6a | |
 | 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. |
| 3215 | 98-9-20 | (none) | B16676 | Ur-Engur, king of Ur Inscription on a fragment of white limestone relief, probably from a larger scene on a stele. Rest of standing figure probably of the king dressed in a long fringed shawl (being introduced to a seated God?) H.C. |
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Breccia - Chert/Flint - Sandstone - Shale
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