Chert/Flint
This is a fine grained silica and may contain small fossils. It is usually white to black in color and is used in tools.
This is a fine grained silica and may contain small fossils. It is usually white to black in color and is used in tools.
Objects: Chert/Flint Export: JSON - XML - CSV
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 11506 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flint arrowhead. [drawing 1:1] |
| 11829 | (none) | 1929,1017.475 | (none) | Flint arrowhead. |
| (none) | (none) | 1929,1017.476 | (none) | (none) |
| 12349 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Arrowhead. Flint. [drawing] |
| 12434 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Collection of flints, flint cores and potsherds including painted specimens found at a depth of 13m below zero (see field notes on PG 1237B). |
| 12685 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flint arrowhead. Edges rough. Slightly convex. [drawing 1:1] |
| 12747 | (none) | 1929,1017.476 | (none) | Flint. With serrated edge. Exposed. The flint itself is overlaid with bitumen: the bitumen is flat on one side and convex on the other [drawing 1:1] |
| 12771K | 31-17-319K | (none) | (none) | Objects. (A) Miniature white calcite bowl (the rim chipped) thus [reference to drawing] [Type RC12]. [drawing 1:1] (B) Shallow bowl of basic diorite (?). (C) Fragment of stone bowl (?) re-used and pierced with 3 holes: basic diorite (?). [drawing] (D) Miniature square box roughly made from light drab clay. (E) Miniature clay bowl. (F) Miniature goblet in light drab clay thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2] (G) Wheelmade pot of pinkish clay with pin-hole orifice at neck (neck broken off). [drawing] (H) Clay bead (?) or handle (?) rough cylinder longitudinally pierced. [U.12771I not assigned] (J) Oval pebble burnisher. Thin and flat. (K) Flint chip. (L) Flint saw. (M) Part of clay jar-sealing with indistinct traces of relief. (N) Clay jar sealing with rows of animals. [drawing 1:1] (O) Flint hoe (?) of T.O. type [Tel Obaid]. | |
| 12771L | (none) | (none) | (none) | Objects. (A) Miniature white calcite bowl (the rim chipped) thus [reference to drawing] [Type RC12]. [drawing 1:1] (B) Shallow bowl of basic diorite (?). (C) Fragment of stone bowl (?) re-used and pierced with 3 holes: basic diorite (?). [drawing] (D) Miniature square box roughly made from light drab clay. (E) Miniature clay bowl. (F) Miniature goblet in light drab clay thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2] (G) Wheelmade pot of pinkish clay with pin-hole orifice at neck (neck broken off). [drawing] (H) Clay bead (?) or handle (?) rough cylinder longitudinally pierced. [U.12771I not assigned] (J) Oval pebble burnisher. Thin and flat. (K) Flint chip. (L) Flint saw. (M) Part of clay jar-sealing with indistinct traces of relief. (N) Clay jar sealing with rows of animals. [drawing 1:1] (O) Flint hoe (?) of T.O. type [Tel Obaid]. |
| 12771O | 31-17-319J | (none) | (none) | Objects. (A) Miniature white calcite bowl (the rim chipped) thus [reference to drawing] [Type RC12]. [drawing 1:1] (B) Shallow bowl of basic diorite (?). (C) Fragment of stone bowl (?) re-used and pierced with 3 holes: basic diorite (?). [drawing] (D) Miniature square box roughly made from light drab clay. (E) Miniature clay bowl. (F) Miniature goblet in light drab clay thus [reference to drawing]. [drawing 1:2] (G) Wheelmade pot of pinkish clay with pin-hole orifice at neck (neck broken off). [drawing] (H) Clay bead (?) or handle (?) rough cylinder longitudinally pierced. [U.12771I not assigned] (J) Oval pebble burnisher. Thin and flat. (K) Flint chip. (L) Flint saw. (M) Part of clay jar-sealing with indistinct traces of relief. (N) Clay jar sealing with rows of animals. [drawing 1:1] (O) Flint hoe (?) of T.O. type [Tel Obaid]. | |
| 12774J.1 | 31-17-321K | (none) | (none) | Objects. (A) Bead, long, clay imitation of bead cut from shell core. (B) Clay bugle bead. (C) Shell bugle bead. (D) Clay spindle whorl. (E) Copper needle (broken). (F) Clay nail. (G) Fragment of clay sickle. (H) Penannular ring of shell. [I not assigned in group] (J) [J.1-.11] Chips, flint and obsidian, including one flint piercer. (K) [K.1-.2] Fragments of clay animal figurines. (L) Animal tooth. (M) Miniature pot of reddish clay, broken. (N) Pottery fragments. [N.1-.4] 4 small bits black design on white, characteristic TO [Tel Obaid]; [N.5-.6] 2 pieces, black band on drab, coarse ware; [N.7-.10] 4 pieces red bands on drab [N.11] 1 piece plain red wash(?); [N.12-.13] 2 pieces, design in red on light ground; [N.14-.15] 2 pieces, design in red and black on light ground : rows of triangles and bands; [N.16-.18] 3 pieces with transverse bands of erased slip decoration, light red on deeper red body. (O) [O.1] Cylindrical vase of light drab clay and [O.2] fragment of a second similar. (P) Clay jar sealing (?) with scratched design. (Q) Clay jar sealing with impression of seal cylinder : subject, bulls and square shrines. (R) Clay cup, reddish ware, wheelmade, normal type, broken and mended. (S) Clay jar sealing, fragment, with design of rows of animals. | |
| (none) | 31-17-352A | (none) | (none) | [U number Not assigned in field] | |
| 13555 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flint arrow(?) head. Tip missing. [drawing] |
| 13706 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flint core. [drawing 1:1] |
| 13716 | 31-16-517 | (none) | (none) | Fragment of Obsidian lid. Ground down to a thinness of one millimetre, originally a dish about d. 80, of greying obisidian. [drawing] |
| 14204 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flint core. Shaped like a truncated cone. Convex. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14906 | (none) | 1930,1213.231 | (none) | Flint hoe (?) [drawing 1:1] |
| 14907 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flint hoe (?) [drawing 1:1] |
| 14912 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flint hoe (?) [drawing 1:1] |
| 14920A | (none) | 1930,1213.371 | (none) | Flints. Set in bitumen. Which fixed the flint either to wood or to bone. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14920B | 31-16-519 | (none) | (none) | Flints. Set in bitumen. Which fixed the flint either to wood or to bone. [drawing 1:1] |
| 14932 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Flint Hoe (?) With traces of bitumen from the hafting at the pointed end. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15330 | (none) | 1930,1213.154 | (none) | Flint. arrowhead(?) Spoon-shaped. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15701 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Model axe. Chert(?) Miniature. Tip broken & missing. Socketed. [drawing] |
| 16194 | (none) | 1931,1010.147 | (none) | Flint blade. Leaf shaped with finely serrated edge: slight rib down center. UET V: 159 FOR 16194C) [drawing 1:1] |
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