Description (Catalog Card): [G-N] Stone pounders. Pebbles, mostly natural shape, of hard stone, of different sorts, several of them bearing marks when they have been used for hammering gold, or where gold has been hammered on them. Most have been split by the heat when the temple was burnt. Amongst them are [O-Q] 3 worked tools, pounders. [drawing]1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): BC Dungi Building Room 12 (crossed out) 3 on floor level     
U Number: 16268O     
Object Type: Weights and Measures >> Balance Pan Weights      
Museum: University of Pennsylvania Museum      
Season Number: 09: 1930-1931      
Description (Modern): burned limestone or basalt piece, flattened on six sides but with corners rounded. Two sides flatter and larger than others, designated top and bottom. Bottom heavily blackened from fire, upper corner broken off. one corner broken off, loss ca. 3%     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Igneous >> Basalt      
Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): 35-1-401     
Measurement (Weight): 121.9     
Measurement (X): 48     
Measurement (Y): 45     
Measurement (Z): 36     
[1] Woolley's description

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Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:64 Page:222 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:64 Page:222 (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:64 Page:221 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:64 Page:221 (none)
Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period 1974 Woolley, Leonard (none)
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