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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
17908	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. 3 flat barrel agates; 1 flat barrel blue granite; 1/2 flat lentoid marble.
17952	(none)	1932,1008.83	(none)	Ear studs. White marble. [drawing 1:1]
18113A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads [A]. Agate elliptical and date shaped, marble elliptical, carnelian date-shaped, carnelian tubular and ball shaped and long double conoid, shaped agate, facetted eliptical in carnelian, blue glaze disk. [drawing] [B-C] Also, scraps of gold foil. [D-E] Also 2 bone spindle whorl.
18142A	(none)	1932,1008.134	(none)	Beads. A collection of mixed stone beads. The majority of stalagmite calcite, plain milky calcite, black and white granite, marble, steatite, pink limestone, jasper etc. ? Third dynasty.
18144A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. A mixed lot. Carnelian, agate, jasper, marble hematite lapis and agate. Mixed shapes: one double tubular; date stamped, tubular, rings etc. Also, a spindle whorl of grey steatite.
18182	(none)	1932,1008.175	(none)	Cylinder seal. White marble. A double row of horizontal slashes.
18224	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase fragment. Black and white marble with fragment of inscription. Probably belongs to U.1455. H.C.
18265	(none)	1933,1030.160	(none)	[A] Beads. A string of black glass paste balls, roughly made and a string of small beads, also of glass paste, green and yellow rings, ovoid and date shaped and ball, with pear-shaped pendant: and 1 carnelian and 1 mottled grey and black marble date shaped beads. [B] With them a very small copper hair ring [B] [drawing].
18322	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Date shaped, of marble and other stones, coarsely made. Order not original but beads are brought in together.
18348	(none)	1933,1013.156	(none)	Beads. Roughly cut from various stones. Limestone, marble, pebble, crystal etc. Roughly date shaped, tubular, balls. Not in original order.
18361	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. White marble. Convex above: oval, flat below with a crude design of drilled spots. [drawing 1:1]
18717	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone vase. White marble. [Type] 50. [drawing]
18836	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. Small shells, pierced; carnelian cylindrical, carnelian ring; marble diamond; steatite discoid; chert (?) date-shaped, double conoid; white frit from amulet. A very poor lot.
19430	(none)	1935,0112.86	(none)	Beads. Carnelian rings and 1 tube, lapis balls, black and white marble balls, 1 quartzite lozenge-shape, 4 date-shaped red chalcedony (?)
19435	(none)	(none)	(none)	Beads. carnelian balls and short date-shaped, lapis balls and balls of black and white marble.