Description (Catalog Card): Inscribed Weight Ovoid Steatite Dark Grey Inscribed [Drawing of Cuneiform] (=IGI-II-GAL= one half) 1/2 a Half-Sheqel (Nominal Weight = 2.104 GRS) Type I1     
Material (Catalog Card): Steatite2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): 2.112 GRS 0.02 x 0.008     
U Number: 16247     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Weights and Measures >> Balance Pan Weights >> Ovoid Weights      
Season Number: 09: 1930-1931      
Object Type: Weights and Measures >> Balance Pan Weights      
Description (Modern): Fine to medium grained gray-blue stone ovoid weight showing many small, light scratches across its surface in a slight angle to the long axis. May be heated dolomite or limestone. Inscribed at top with cuneiform(?),     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Igneous >> Basalt      
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1931,1010.183     
Measurement (Weight): 2.09     
Measurement (X): 20     
Measurement (Y): 8     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

Files

Locations: 16247 | 1931,1010.183 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
Unknown Woolley did not list a location. (none)
  • 1 Location

Media: 16247 | 1931,1010.183 Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
(none) (none) (none) (none) (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:64 Page:200 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:64 Page:200 (none)
  • 2 Media

Share

Email | Edit


Context

Unknown


References

.

[title missing], .