16280B | 31-43-113
| Description (Catalog Card): | A set, found together, with a copper weight (?) all decayed. (A) Duck weight, hematite. weight 2.24 grs. =16 "little sheqels" (exactly) Type VI. (B) Duck weight, hematite. weight 1.152 grs.=8 little sheqels (nominal weight 1.12 grs.) Type VI (C) Pink limestone, [Drawing 1:1] In section thus, weight 3.968 grs. perh= 1/2 sheqel (4.208 grs.) Type ? (D) Shell, similar shape to last but less regular, weight 1.792 grs. (Nominal weight 1.68 grs.) Type ?1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | BC House 30/c below floor level, in filling above Bur-Sin SE annex, room 8. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Haematite2 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | L. 0013 |
| U Number: | 16280B |
| Museum: | University of Pennsylvania Museum |
| Object Type: | Weights and Measures >> Balance Pan Weights >> Duck Weights |
| Season Number: | 09: 1930-1931 |
| Description (Modern): | Well made hematite duck, polished reddish black. Very thin form with high back, head shown in relief at center of back with low neck rising to it. Bill shown as indentation, base flat, tail flat and flared. |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Hematite |
| Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number): | 31-43-113 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 1.23 |
| Measurement (X): | 13 |
| Measurement (Y): | 8 |
| Measurement (Z): | 6 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 30/C | Five houses of the Isin-Larsa/Old Babylonian period infringed upon the ruins of the Shulgi Mausoleum and its Amar-Sin annexes. In fact, the houses were built almost directly above its remains and it is curious to think that the large and important mausolea would have faded so completely from memory that houses would be built here 100 - 200 years later. Woolley felt that the Elamite destruction had been severe enough to accomplish this. The southwest wall of the mausolea remained to a height of 2 meters while the northeast wall was substantially ruined and it is this northeastern side that is most heavily built over. Woolley excavated these houses quickly in his effort to uncover the larger Ur III structure and numbered them as one unit, House 30. Later he separated the plans into individual houses, labeled House 30 A-E. All were badly denuded and few finds came from them, though typically there were also graves beneath the floors that are better recorded. These and drainpipes often disturbed parts of the ruined mausolea below., Very little remains of this building. | (none) |
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| Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards | Ur_Notes_v2_p306 | Ur_Notes_v2_p306 | (none) |
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