Weights and Measures

This category includes implements used for weighing out other objects or supplies.

This category includes implements used for weighing out other objects or supplies. 

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
7132 (none) (none) (none) Ingot. Bronze. B.
7508 (none) (none) B17101 Weight. Lentoid. Granite. Seven incised marks on the surface IIII III Type II
7530 (none) (none) (none) Weight Limestone. Grey. Lentoid, flat on one sides. III marks on cylindrical portion. Type II.
7534 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight Diorite. Blue. Duck's head broken off. Type VI.
7546 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight Marble. Grey. Type VI.
7547 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight Marble. Blue grey. Type VI.
7557 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight Marble. Black. Head removed, outline of its base remains. Type VI.
7586 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight Diorite. Blue grey. Bottom chipped. Type VI.
7604 (none) (none) (none) Weight hematite. Dark green. Lentoid. Type II.
7605 (none) (none) (none) Weight Conoid. hematite. Dark green. Type IV.
7609 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Diorite. Black. modeled head reclining on back and at base webbed feet hitherto never represented on duck weights found at Ur. Type VI.
7825 (none) (none) (none) Inscribed duck weight Diorite. A crescent. of Dungi; weight 5 mana. B Type VI. HC.37.
7922 (none) (none) (none) Weight Lentoid. hematite. Type II.
8301 (none) (none) (none) Shell roundel. Carved as a flower rosette with 8 petals of which 5 are marked with engraved circles: the edge is serrated. The whole is slightly convex: a hole through the center. [drawing 1:1]
8466A (none) (none) (none) [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.
8466B (none) (none) B17615 [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.
8466C (none) (none) (none) [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.
8466E (none) (none) B17613 [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.
8467 (none) (none) (none) Copper ring and bar A flattened bar of copper with a loop at the top by which it is attached to a copper ring [drawing]
8632 (none) (none) (none) Roundels. 7 black and 7 white The black inlaid with 5 white shell spots The white inlaid with 5 lapis spots Found lying in a row, arranged in alternate colors [drawing]
8633A (none) (none) (none) Gaming pieces(?) [A-D] 4 black and [E-K] 7 white. The white are flattened spheres, shell, marked on the top with an incised cross. The black are solid triangles with slightly convex sides having a white spot (shell) inlaid at two of the angles [drawing].
8696 (none) (none) (none) Roundel of baked clay with incised design thus: [drawing 1:1]
8802 (none) (none) (none) Loom weight? Clay ring apparently containing sign: nigin. B. Type IX.
8996 (none) (none) (none) Shell roundel. Convex above with incised 8 point star, the petals inlaid with lapis and red paste, 3 red and 5 blue of which one is missing. [drawing]
8997 (none) (none) (none) Shell roundel. With 8-pointed star rosette engraved on the convex surface, the petals originally inlaid with red and blue, but the inlay missing. The shell is mounted on a disk of red limestone.

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