8466D | 1928,1009.455

Description (Catalog Card): [A-E] 5 weights, [A-D] 4 hematite, [E] 1 silver lentoid. hematite - 1 lentoid, 1 conoid, 1 ovoid, 1 roughly cylindrical, slightly bigger at base than at top. weights: Types I, II, III, IV.2     
Find Context (Catalog Card): TTE PG 288     
Material (Catalog Card): Haematite4     
U Number: 8466D     
Museum: British Museum      
Object Type: Weights and Measures >> Balance Pan Weights >> Ovoid Weights 1     
Season Number: 05: 1926-1927      
Description (Modern): dark gray stone with many light scratches parallel to long axis on body and to short axis at ends. Flat base, rounded but faceted top, tapered ends flattened. Rectangular plan, half circle section. Basalt or treated dolomite.1     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Igneous >> Basalt 3     
Material: Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Mineral >> Semi-precious >> Hematite      
Museum Number (BM Big Number): 120897     
Museum Number (BM Registration Number): 1928,1009.4555     
Measurement (Weight): 2.241     
Measurement (X): 17.51     
Measurement (Y): 10.01     
Measurement (Z): 7.01     
[1] Data recorded by Dr. William B. Hafford.
[2] Woolley's description
[3] Data recorded by Dr. William B. Hafford. Material identification uncertain
[4] Material as described by Woolley
[5] Data collected by British Museum research team.

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Location Context Title Context Description Description (Modern)
PG/288 (none) (none)
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Media Media Title Title Label Author Omeka Label
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Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery 1934 Woolley, Leonard (none)
Woolley's Catalog Cards Woolley's Catalog Cards Card -- BM ID:194 Box:38 Page:172 Card -- BM ID:194 Box:38 Page:172 (none)
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Ur >> Royal Cemetery | PG >> TTE >> Private Graves 201-300 >> PG/288

References

Woolley, Leonard. (1934) Ur Excavations II; The Royal Cemetery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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