16268B | 1931,1010.116
| Description (Catalog Card): | [A-F] Set of weights: steatite, fire-blackened. To be weighed. [A] (1) Ovoid; [B] (2) long ovoid, broken and repaired; [C] (3) lentoid, broken and repaired; [D] (4) lentoid; [E] (5) narrow lentoid; [F] (6) fragment, 3 inscribed strokes on side. [drawing]2 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | BC Dungi room 12 on floor level |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | L. 0.11 Diam 0.04 Weight 174..75 Unit 20s Ratio 8.72 |
| U Number: | 16268B |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Object Type: | Weights and Measures >> Balance Pan Weights >> Ovoid Weights 1 |
| Season Number: | 09: 1930-1931 |
| Description (Modern): | fire blackened limestone(?) or basalt. Smoothed and some work on natural shape into irregular sphendonoid. Broken in two near long axis, probably in fire. Put back together with some loss ~2% from chipping at end of break. cracked and repaired1 |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Igneous >> Basalt 1 |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 128587 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1931,1010.116 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 274.01 |
| Measurement (X): | 109.01 |
| Measurement (Y): | 40.01 |
| [1] Data recorded by Dr. William B. Hafford. |
| [2] Woolley's description |
Files
| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Room 12 | Dungi Room 12 | (none) | (none) |
- 1 Location
| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period | 1974 | Woolley, Leonard | (none) |
| (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) | (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) | |
| 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) |
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Context
Excavation Context: Ur >> Mausoleum Site | BC >> Mausolea of Shulgi | Dungi Building >> Room 12 | Dungi Room 12
References
Woolley, Leonard. (1974) Ur Excavations VI; The Ur III Period, Oxford: Oxford University Press.