Marble

This rock ranges in color from white to green to gray to brown to red. It is usually used in statues, as a building material, and as a component in lime.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
14925	31-16-481	(none)	(none)	Stone handle. Perhaps for a drill? [Drawing 1:1] Vol IV: PL. 28 (p.31.16.481) PFT E7-910h-950
15353	31-16-479	(none)	(none)	Mace-Head. White marble, pear-shaped but rather squat. Found by one of the heads which lay close to each other in confusion in square E7
15459	(none)	(none)	(none)	Kohl pot. Marble(?) White. In form of double column. [drawing 1:1] TA
15611	(none)	1930,0012.13	(none)	Stone vase. Fragment. In mottled dark grey & white marble fragment with part of flat base and side. [drawing]
16180	31-43-3	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Two rows of deeply incised circles.
16272	31-43-252, 31-43-252	(none)	(none)	Marble Mace-head. fragment of. inscribed: Dingir gi (mil-dSin?) ki-ag dingir en-lil........ Gimil-Sin (?), beloved of the god, Enlil...... HC. BC. Dungi-room I Text: Dungi Many 10 App I (3) VI
16333	(none)	1931,1010.120	(none)	Mace head. Grey and white mottled marble. Squate pear-shaped.
16345A	31-43-280	(none)	(none)	(none)
16408	31-43-2	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Circular, convex above of striped black and white marble, design almost entirely perished; worked mostly with the drill. [drawing 1:1]
16415	31-43-257	(none)	(none)	Duck weight Breccia. Mottled mauve and white. To be weighed. Type VI.
16420	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight blue-grey marble, with white bands. To be weighed. Type VI.
16429P	(none)	1931,1010.182	(none)	Weight. Slightly flattened lentoid. Black marble with white veins. thus: [Drawing] Incised marks on 1 side. Weight 5.952 grs. = 1 double minette (nominally 5.611). Type II.
16429T	(none)	1931,1010.160	(none)	Weight. Bugle [crossed out] Cylindrical. Haematite. Red-Brown. Weight = 1.28 Grs = 1/2 Minette (nominally = 1.4025) Type III
16610	(none)	1931,1010.63	(none)	Stamp seal. White marble? 3 animals, one of them a gazelle? [drawing]
16664	(none)	1931,1010.42	(none)	Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Presentation scene: 2 standing figures before an enthroned god.
16677	31-43-24	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Grey marble? Presentation scene: 2 standing figures before a seated god.
167	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. White Steatite [crossed out] crystalline marble, burnt: poor condition. Subject: seated god rt; before him an altar, then 2 standing figs l. and remains of column of inscription.
16751	(none)	1931,1010.45	(none)	Cylinder seal. Mottled marble. Unpierced.
16783B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-C] 3 seals. 2 scaraboids. (A). 1 frit scaraboid with scorpion engraved; (B). 1 mottled marble(?) with gazelle engraved. (C). 1 brownish stone stamp seal: star engraved.
1706	(none)	(none)	B15594	Cylinder seal. Light brown stone. With traces of archaic design of fishes.
17321	31-43-61	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Marble (?). Brown. Sides convex. God standing behind a crescent on a pole and a second deity introducing the votary advances toward the pole. Dwarf like figure. Animal.
17417	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 1 amethyst facetted. 1 marble lentoid. 1 carnelian double conoid. 1 steatite lentoid. 1 frit lentoid. 2 glass paste flattened tubular beads, lozenge shaped in section.
17660B	32-40-228	(none)	(none)	Group. From a single grave (A) [A, E-F] 3 gold earrings, small hollow lunate type. (B) Beads: very small gold balls: carnelian rings and balls and 1 bugle, marble and steatite elongated lentoids, agate square and conoid pendant (?) (or spindle whorl) apparently of wood : original order mostly preserved. (C) Cylinder seal: shell. Two rampant animals: very poor and worn. (D) A pair of thick copper bangles [D and G]
17691	(none)	1932,1008.182	(none)	Mould. Marble. Pendant, design indistinguishable. [drawing 1:1]
17801B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: From one grave. (A) [A and D] 2 gold earrings, small hollow lunette type. (B) [B and E based on museum divisions] Beads: lentoids, bugles, flattened lentoids of barrels of crystal, agate, marble, lapis, carnelian, and a cat's eye: also, probably from a separate string, small balls of carnelian and of copper plated with gold foil - the latter mostly perished. (C) [C and F] 2 plain copper bangles, one broken.