16268E | 1931,1010.115
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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Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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Room 12 | Dungi Room 12 | (none) | (none) |
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Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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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