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. |
Files
Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
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PG/288 | (none) | (none) |
- 1 Location
Media | Media Title | Title | Label | Author | Omeka Label |
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(none) | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
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) |
- 3 Media
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Context
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.