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)
604	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone gaming piece(?) White marble. Chipped at base. [drawing 1:1]
605	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone gaming piece(?) White marble. [drawing 1:1]
6134	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Upper band, nine men, below animals and sacred tree. Bulls. Lion. Eagle. About BC 3000, B
6189	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Bel-Marduk holding two rampant bulls - crescent and star. Time of Assyrian influence about BC 800. B.
6272	(none)	(none)	(none)	Square marble block. Grey. E.
6279	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mace head. Black marble? Fragmentary. E.
6296	(none)	(none)	B16291	Cylinder seal. Brown marble? Inscribed. Pierced. 3 crouching antelopes (one reversed). Before BC 3000. E.
6297	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Marble. Fragmentary. Traces of an inscription. Presentation to a seated goddess. About BC 2800. B.
6311	(none)	(none)	(none)	Marble vase. Fragment of Gudea. (To the goddess) NIN-MAR-KI, his (lady) for the life of (GU)-DE-A, patesi of lagash-----(---has presented). Cf. the door-socket of Dungi to dNin-mar in her shrine at Girsu (=Lagash). Recovered probably at Tell-id (?) - SAKI. p.190 e.). -- H.C. B.
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]