Description (Catalog Card): Duck weight Steatite, pale grey. Erased inscription in 2 lines, incised in square frame on right side. Traces of characters still visible as follows: [drawing]. To be weighed. Type VI [drawing]1     
Find Context (Catalog Card): BC Dungi Room 12     
Material (Catalog Card): Steatite2     
Measurement (Catalog Card): 0.094 x 0.051 (height)     
U Number: 16429A     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Weights and Measures >> Balance Pan Weights >> Duck Weights      
Season Number: 09: 1930-1931      
Object Type: Weights and Measures >> Balance Pan Weights      
Description (Modern): Highly polished calcite brownish green with heavy salt accretion at breast and base. Small head and bill depicted on back, neck large, little detail and medium relief. Inscribed at side but intentionally defaced and illegible. Base flat, tail wide and rounded.     
Description (Modern): Object is not sealed.     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Calcite Group >> Calcite      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 128444     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1931,1010.113     
Tablet ID Number: X007284     
Measurement (Weight): 485.0     
Measurement (X): 92     
Measurement (Y): 70     
Measurement (Z): 50     
[1] Woolley's description
[2] Material as described by Woolley

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Excavation Context: Ur >> Mausoleum Site | BC >> Mausolea of Shulgi | Dungi Building >> Room 12 | Dungi Room 12


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