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)
126	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Coarse white marble (?) With black veins, chipped. Two birds: very rough work: late. [drawing 1:1]
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.
208	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mace head. White marble. Complete, but top moulding and one side chipped, and part of inscription missing. [Annotated] Dedication of mace head to Nannar bu Ur-Engur for his life. (1) Nannar. (2) lugal-a-ui. (3) Ur-Engur. (4) mtah-kal-gu. (5) lugal Uri-ki-ma. (6) lugal Ki-en-gi ki-uri ge. (7) (uam ti) - la-ui-su. (8) (um) - na-du. [Annotated] Baghdad
230	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Upper part of = White marble (?) burnt to the consistency of French chalk. Remains of rather fine engraving of 3rd Dynasty style.
307	(none)	1923,1110.50	(none)	Marble relief. Fr showing feathers or hair, possibly one side of a coiffure: certainly intended for inlay: hole in the back for fixing something (a face?) in the center.
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]
889	(none)	(none)	(none)	Marble bowl fragment of in coarse white marble.
891	(none)	(none)	(none)	Marble bowl fragment of very roughly worked and the inside chiseled out instead of being bored or ground- perhaps unfinished.
912	(none)	(none)	(none)	White marble bowl. Fragment of Roughly cut, and surface a good deal decayed.
1043	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black and white marble. Large, rather coarsely engraved. Men and beasts, subjects.
1411	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black marble (?) Eagle with outspread wings clutching the backs of 2 rampant ibexes which turn their heads backward. Between the heads of the 2 creatures is a palm-tree or symbol. No inscription.
2754	(none)	1927,1003.194	(none)	Seal cylinder. White marble. About BC 2800. Inscription: Da-da-mu = D? dumu Gu-za-na? son of G? [drawing]
2809	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Red marble. About 2700 BC [drawing]
3072	(none)	(none)	(none)	Grotesque mask. Pinkish marble, pierced for suspension. [drawing 1:1]
3295	(none)	1927,1003.65	(none)	Stone crescent. Pink marble, bored for insertion of standard pole. Sketch 1:2/ in text: Neo-Babylonian period (13) in Cat. [drawing 1:2]
6004	(none)	1927,0527.185	(none)	Cylinder seal. Half of light pink marble row of human figures with small animals between and above. Sun god defeating his enemy. About BC 2600.
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.
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]