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]     
Find Context (Catalog Card): BC Dungi building Room XII      
Measurement (Catalog Card): L. .128 Diam .037     
U Number: 16268E     
Object Type: Weights and Measures >> Balance Pan Weights >> Ovoid Weights      
Museum: British Museum      
Season Number: 09: 1930-1931      
Description (Modern): red granite blackened by fire. Cracked in many places and repaired with loss of 5-10% of original mass. Some pecking damage at preserved end, other end broken off. Clearly flattened base for resting however leaving no doubt this was a prepared weight. broken and repaired      
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 128586     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1931,1010.115     
Measurement (Weight): 969     
Measurement (X): 133     
Measurement (Y): 83     

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