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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8977 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl. White limestone. Type ? |
| 9051 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Limestone? White Spread eagle, star above crescent moon, and on either side of the star and crescent, a reclining antelope with very high horns. |
| 9219 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bowl With lip spout Broken into several pieces White limestone Stone type LXXVII. |
| 9236 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Dish Limestone White Broken & mended Stone type XCIV |
| 9239 | (none) | (none) | B17246 | Offering table Limestone White Made in 2 pieces Part of table missing | |
| 9266 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal Limestone White Subject not clear. A seated god, a squatting lion, vertical posts, a god behind the bards of a gate? And a second standing god. |
| 9539 | (none) | (none) | B17147 | Vase Oolite? Grey Probably cut down in antiquity from a tall spill vase. Surface badly chipped and pitted Type L1. | |
| 9664 | (none) | (none) | B17182 | Stone bowl White limestone Bath-shaped Type XXI | |
| 9688 | (none) | (none) | B16884 | Cylinder seal Green stone In very bad condition Apparently a presentation scene | |
| 9794 | (none) | (none) | B17141 | Limestone Bowl. Broken into 5 pieces. Surface decayed. |
| 9835 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone Bowl Limestone White Type LIV |
| 9858 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Grey limestone. Scene of worship within the gates of a shrine. Seated god with an attendant carrying a bucket behind him. The seated god greets a standing figure. The scene occurs behind gates consisting of two posts stuck into the ground connected by loop-shaped attachments. |
| 9914 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Offering-table White limestone Only the stem, and that broken and imperfect [drawing] |
| 10078 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Whetstone (?) Sausage-shaped: made of a coralline limestone (?) Dark bluish grey with white annumitic markings |
| 10192 | (none) | (none) | B17594 | Cylinder Seal Baked clay Very roughly cut: presentation scene 2 seated gods and two standing figures. | |
| 10400 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Head of Priest. Shaven and shorn. Dark grey limestone. Nose chipped. Missing below neck. Hole 5mm in diameter pierced vertically through neck to join the head to a body which doubtless consisted of some other material. Good modelling. Eyes and eyebrows heavily pronounced, coventional eyes shaped. Heavy nose, pursed up lips and small but pronounced chin. Head and figures typically Sumerian - dolichocephalic. [drawing] |
| 10742 | (none) | (none) | B16938 | Necklace with silver dog amulet Jasper, carnelian, silver beads and one (oolite?) Silver dog has a harness represented by a relatively wide band of copper round neck along top of back and running round rear portion of body in a single piece. Body perforated longitudinally. For order and sketch see Field Note. | |
| 10819E | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. A. [A and F] Two copper pins, both broken, one with a plain the other with a fluted lapis ball head. Tip of second missing. Type V B. [B and G] pair of cockle shells containing black and green paint. C. necklace of lapis and silver double conoids and carnelian ring beads. For order see Field Notes. D. [D.1-.2] Pair of silver earrings 2 1/2 coils E. A limestone bowl. Type XII |
| 10822C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. A. Silver pin with fluted lapis ball head and fluted gold cap. Type V. B. Lapis lazuli cylinder seal, 2 registers: Upper: scorpion, kneeling hero fighting rampant lions, (a panther?), a striped zebu, and behind them a standing skirted male figure. Lower: gate of a shrine and within it seated figures drinking through straws, 3 seated figures, and 2 standing attendants. C. Limestone Bowl. Type XII D. Necklace of silver and lapis double conoids with 3 large facetted beads, 2 carnelian, 1 gold. For order see Field Note. |
| 10973 | (none) | (none) | (none) | White limestone Bowl. Broken. |
| 10987 | (none) | (none) | B16895 | Cylinder Seal. Shell. Geometrical design. [drawing] | |
| 11149 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pestle. Limestone. White. Shaped like a truncated cone with convex ends. [drawing] |
| 11204 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. (7). Large lapis double conoid; oolite? barrel bead; 2 gold ring beads; 2 carnelian ball beads; 1 rock crystal double conoid. |
| 11400 | (none) | (none) | B17198 | Limestone relief. Fragment of inlay from a frieze. The upper part of a male figure with arms raised holding a pole as if punting a boat. | |
| 11412 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Beads. 3 only. 1-carnelian bugle; 1-long limestone lentoid; 1-red and white breccia (?) found tied round the left upper arm. |
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Breccia - Chert/Flint - Sandstone - Shale
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