Lime Mortar and Plaster

Lime mortar is made of lime and sand mixed with water.  It is one of the oldest known types of mortar, and replaced the clay and gypsum mortars.  

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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)
	12776D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group of objects: (A) Small fragment of obsidian vase. (B) [.1-.6] 3 long clay bugles, imitation of beads cut from core of shell. (C) Obsidian chip. (D) Jar - stopper of mud and lime, circular, one face flat, one convex, with rough incisions on flat face, perhaps accidental. (E) [.1-.2] Fragment of terracotta figure perhaps the head of a dragon (?). [Drawing] (F) Clay object, flat, with incised holes. (G) [.1-.6] Five fragments of clay jar sealings with seal impressions : all have rows of animals in wooded or rocky country. (H) [.1-.26] Pottery fragments 1) Plum red and back decoration on light ground: 2 examples. 2) Red decoration on light ground and other fragments. Not in catalog of Vol. IV.
	17865	(none)	(none)	(none)	Head of Statue. White limestone. Female, very coarse and ugly work. The eyees are inlaid. The hair on top of the head was in a different material and was fixed on by a copper peg part of which remains in a hole in the crown : the ears are pierced to take earrings. The figure is broken away under the chin and just across the shoulders: enough of the latter is left to show that it was a draped figure. The statue had been broken in antiquity and mended with bitumen. Kassite.
	17898	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Mixed lot, off many shapes and materials, found in or just below the floor of an early Neo-Babylonian level and presumably of that date, though some may well be old beads re-used. Shapes include ball, ring, cylinder, rhomboid, diamond, date shaped, elliptical, polygonal, double conoid, poppyseed, chisel, pear pendant, one miniature celt. Materials include carnelian, marble, steatite, sard, calcite, quartz, amethyst, agate, mother of pearl, shell, glazed frit, limestone (?), granite, hematite, crystal.
	19191	35-1-1	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. With rings of steatite inset at the two ends. Heroes fighting animals. (somewhat decayed).
	8997	(none)	(none)	(none)	Shell roundel. With 8-pointed star rosette engraved on the convex surface, the petals originally inlaid with red and blue, but the inlay missing. The shell is mounted on a disk of red limestone.

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