Bitumen
Bitumen is a black, oily, viscous material that is a naturally-occurring organic byproduct of decomposed organic materials.
Bitumen is a black, oily, viscous material that is a naturally-occurring organic byproduct of decomposed organic materials.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 12204 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Spear. Poken type. Traces of bitumen round haft. Type I. B. |
| 10367 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal Shell. White. Inscribed. 2 heroes each grasping a rampant bull by the tail and forcing the head back by the horns. Each hero clothed in short (sheep-skin?) skirt coming down to the knees: shirt has tasselled ends. Each hero is bearded and the hair at the back of the head is done up into a short upturned curl. Seal has copper caps set in bitumen. Caps broken and decayed. Par t of subject obliterated. A - DEN-ZU-dim Ka-su-du - A-ENZU-dim, libationer: (suggested by Dr. Rarn): A- DEN-ZU-sim - son created by EN-ZU (analogy with A-anni-padda). |
| 11566 | 30-12-14 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers: above, 2 bulls & trees; below, 2 gazelles & trees. | |
| 8787 | (none) | (none) | (none) | FAIENCE MASK Portion of neck missing. Each ear perforated three times. Two rows of holes partially perforated through neck. Hole partially perforated through middle of mask from the back. Fine bold modelling. Holes in neck inlaid with bitumen? Vol VII. [drawing 1:1] |
| 12749 | (none) | 1928,1010.795 | (none) | Figurine bitumen. Very crudely modelled. A seated or kneeling human figure. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14932 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flint Hoe (?) With traces of bitumen from the hafting at the pointed end. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14920A | (none) | 1930,1213.371 | (none) | Flints. Set in bitumen. Which fixed the flint either to wood or to bone. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14920B | 31-16-519 | (none) | (none) | Flints. Set in bitumen. Which fixed the flint either to wood or to bone. [drawing 1:1] |
| 18298 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Fragment of gaming board. Bitumen. Punched holes in the surface, some surrounded by circles of short radial lines (there are a good deal obliterated by rubbing) Roughly done. [drawing 1:1] |
| 1718 | (none) | (none) | B15610 | Fragment of shaft (top only) of bitumen paste(?); round at top, hexagonally grooved below. [drawing 2:5] |
| 3125 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Gold bead. With bitumen core blocking one hole. One end bent in. Spherical bead. In text: Neo-Babylonian period (7) in Cat. |
| 10412 | (none) | 1928,1010.1 | (none) | Harp The upright of wood with gold cap, bound below with gold and with a bitumen shoe: in the upright are the keys, copper nails with gilt heads. The body has disappeared, but there was a vertical border of gold and lapis along the edge. On the body stood a wooden sounding-box, the edge inlaid with shell having patterns in red paint and lapis. The head of the harp, in front, was a gold bulls head with eyes, hair, and beard of lapis. Found in very bad condition, all the wood gone and only the decoration left, but that virtually in its original position |
| 6578 | (none) | (none) | (none) | HEAD. STONE. - limestone, grey. Fragmentary. Traces of bitumen remain in the eye socket. Sumerian type, bald; rounded cheeks, heavy ears, well defined eye socket, eyeball protruding, bridge of nose heavy, distinct hollow running down from lower portion of nose to mouth following contour of cheek. Rounded chin. Right half of head missing, right eye, nose and mouth badly mutilated. |
| 13713 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Model boat. In bitumen (broken). [drawing] |
| 9591 | (none) | 1928,1010.298 | (none) | Mosaic Fragment perhaps from a box: the woodwork was entirely perished, and all that survives is a patch of incrustation work formed of minute squares of reddish wood set in bitumen: the squares measure 4 to 5 millimetres across. |
| 9255 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ostrich egg Broken and part missing. Decorated at one end with tesselated triangles of white shell alternated by triangles and diamonds of bitumen. There are 5 rows of triangles and above strips of shell 0015 wide and 002 high. |
| 14469A | (none) | (none) | (none) | Ostrich shell. Badly smashed. One end decorated with mother of pearl rectangular strips and shell inlay in form of small triangles set on bitumen. |
| 10590 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Reins of second bullock waggon Consisting of very large lentoid beads in silver over bitumen and some smaller facetted lentoids of lapis lazuli |
| 3120 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Small pot of bitumen. Sketch pattern 1:1. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8578 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone saw. Red chert. Set in bitumen. [drawing] |
| 6750 | (none) | 1927,0527.225 | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Fragmentary. Head missing. Seated god. Full face above waist, in profile below. Right arm bent at elbow, piece of cloth? Hangs down over bare forearm, right hand holds crescent shaped object and a bag against the breast. Left arm bent at elbow and held away from the body. Left hand held upright, fingers missing. Figure is draped in a kaukanes skirt falling in 5 tiers of flounces. Arms bare, flowing beard falls down to chest. The feet of the figure, long and tapering to a point very distinctly arched, rest on paving. Throne on which figure is resting has two legs and a support in the middle. Low curved back to chair. E. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 15711 | (none) | 1930,1213.328 | (none) | Terracotta plaque. Pair of demons, both standing-full face. One a bearded male, the other a female: both wearing flannel kaukanes skirts, the male figure carries a flabellum(?). | |
| 1214 | (none) | 1924,0920.110 | (none) | Terracotta, moulded in three-quarter round. Figure of bearded god from waist upwards, hands clasped. | |
| 11521C | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. Consisting (A) A gold frontlet, oval decorated edge with half-punctured dots, as also round the string-holes at each end: broken & parts missing. (B) Beads: a quantity of small lapis balls & a string of gold & carnelian bugles with lapis balls (see Field Notes) (C) A string-sealing of bitumen, a flattened ovoid. |
| 10944A | (none) | 1928,1010.87 | (none) | [A-B] Gold Amulets two in the form of fish. (gold over a bitumen core) the thread went through the mouth and one gill. Found with U.10943, 10945. [drawing 1:1] |