Description (Catalog Card): [A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): PG 1609     
Material (Catalog Card): stone (pebble)2     
U Number: 14003A     
Object Type: Weights and Measures >> Balance Pan Weights >> Ovoid Weights      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 08: 1929-1930      
Description (Modern): Very small, red near translucent chalcedony (jasper or carnelian) form is somewhat rough due to small size, but clearly shaped as sphendonoid with flat ends and flat base. Smallest weight ever recorded from ANE.     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Chalcedony      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 92-4-249A3     
Measurement (Weight): 0.13     
Measurement (X): 6.2     
Measurement (Y): 3.9     
Measurement (Z): 3.1     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley
[3] This museum number relates to a group of objects found in storage identified as from Ur. The objects appear to match with the field number U.14003, however, it is not directly documented in the records. Sub-letters do not appear on the objects; they have been assigned them from lightest to heaviest.

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Media: 14003A | 92-4-249A Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:57 Page:164 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:57 Page:164 (none)
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