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)
6411	(none)	1927,0527.150	(none)	Pendant. Brown marble. Helmet shaped. Design in relief of a fish? At flat end. [drawing 1:1]
6430	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mace head. White marble. Pear shaped. B. [drawing]
6473	(none)	(none)	(none)	Pendant in shape of duck? Pink marble. Incision running diagonally across body below tail to mark wing? Pierced for suspension. ? Imitation lion's claw? B. [drawing 1:1]
6488	(none)	(none)	(none)	Marble palette? Mottled. Flate one side, curved on the other, rounded at corners. Hole pierced in each corner. E.
6650	(none)	1927,0527.149	(none)	Frog bead. Marble? E. [drawing 1:1]
6852	(none)	1927,0527.186	(none)	Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Conical at either end. Inscribed. Scene of worship. Worshipper being introduced to seated god by minion god. E.
6872	(none)	(none)	B16315	Seal. Stone. Convex on one side, flat on the other. Round incisions on the flat side. Pierced. Before 3000 BC. B.
7517	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mace head. Black marble. [drawing cut out, only label 1:1 still visible] Found with U7518 glass cylinder seal. Found with U7516 and clay written inscription.
7523	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Marble. grey. Inscribed but faint. Two deities with hands upraised and between them armed warrior and sceptre with serpent's head. [drawing of scene]
7529	(none)	1928,0109.15	(none)	Cylinder seal. White marble. Two heroes attacking rampant lion. One grasps lion by tail. Palm tree rising from pot? Linear figures.
7543	(none)	1928,1009.429	(none)	Pestle. Greyish marble. Cylindrical with hemispherical top and bottom. Bottom slightly wider than top. [drawing 1:1]
7546	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight Marble. Grey. Type VI.
7547	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight Marble. Blue grey. Type VI.
7548	(none)	1928,1009.53	(none)	Cylinder seal. Marble. White. Incised lines decoration and 4 minute circles [drawing of design]
7557	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight Marble. Black. Head removed, outline of its base remains. Type VI.
7560	(none)	(none)	(none)	Reclining bull. Mottled marble. Head missing. Bull rests on outside of hollowed cylinder and may be part of a decorative handle. [drawing 1:1]
7583	(none)	(none)	B16903	Cylinder seal. Fragment. Marble, White Scene of worship. Heavily draped god seated on throne without a back holding in outstretched left hand a bird? Above double crescent moon? & between seated god and advancing figure a second bird? Second advancing fig. clean shaven, & heavily draped in long flairing skirt, behind him a goose? and behind the goose a goddess? in a flounced kaunakes skirt, both arms upraised? Behind the throne of the seated god Gilgamesh? with tail.
7617	(none)	(none)	B16877	Cylinder seal. Marble. White. 4 bulls rampant of which 3 have human heads, bearded and horned. On either side a rampant lion. Grotesque figure with himan body, animal's head, (possibly a donkey's head??) conical headdress and pig tail? grasps one lion by the tail. c. 3000BC
7656	(none)	(none)	B16865	Cylinder seal. Marble. Mottled grey and black. Slightly concave. Gilgamesh fighting rampant lion; Enkidu fighting rampant bull; lion and bull back to back. c. 2800BC.
7658	(none)	(none)	B16890	Cylinder seal. Marble? White. Hero between two rampant bulls? On either side of bulls a rampant lion. Between the lions a post surmounted by a star.
7681	(none)	1928,1009.14	(none)	Cylinder seal. Fragment. White marble. Rampant lion. Rampant bull. Attacked by hero with feathered headdress.
7915	(none)	1928,1009.58	(none)	Flat seal. Convex on one side. Hole perforated through top for attachment. Whorl design on flat side. Yellowish marble with red streaks.
7923	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Marble. Brownish, and black. Slightly concave. Gilgamesh fighting rampant lion. Behind the lion a gazelle which follows Enkidu who fights a rampant bull. Behind the rampant bull a star over a crescent moon. c. 2700BC.
8747	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Marble. Mottled. 5 standing divinities all wearing high horned headdresses. One walks upon the mountain - left leg straight, right leg slightly bent at knee as in an attitude of climbing - in his right hand he holds a plume? Oblique lines on either side touching the shoulders and waist possibly the sun's rays? Facing him a divinity carrying an offering? in his left hand, behind a god carrying a gazelle. Beyond but facing the opposite direction a god Ea? with water flowing from eah shoulder and beyond again a god grasping a ladder, head turned towards Ea as if inviting him to ascend. Possibly this is the ladder of heaven which has already been ascended by all except these two divinities.
9026	(none)	(none)	B16876	Cylinder seal. Marble: green and white. A winged god wearing conical cap and a straight flowing skirt which is represented by vertical parallel lines, holds left arm slightly upraised while apparently addressing a second naked god. The second god is engaged in felling to the ground an unwinged god who is represented as utterly unbalanced, arms flung downward behind the head, head and feet drooping to the ground, middle of the body uppermost. Beyond: a third winged divinity stands over the back of a crouching man, right foot upon the neck, left foot upon the rump. The winged divinity also lays his right hand upon the head of a naked kneeling suppliant, and his left upon the head of a similar suppliant who kneels upon the left knee only. Bold but rather coarse cutting. Subject not hitherto found upon any cylinder seal from Ur.