Weights and Measures

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

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
9140A	(none)	(none)	B17097	Whetstones. Two A:B large & heavy of grey stone. one [A] pierced at the top for suspension.
9538A	(none)	(none)	B16911A	3 Haematite Weights [A-C] Lentoid shaped. Probably goldsmiths weights Type II Published in Vol. II The Royal Cemetery
10012	(none)	(none)	(none)	Lump of silver Very solid and heavy: it looks as if it might once have been an inscribed tablet, but it is completely decayed and the surface perished
10576B	(none)	(none)	B16701	[A-D] Shell Roundels 4 With inlaid rosette patterns in red and blue (one only in outline with blue centre, the others with alternate red & blue petals). One has shell and shale rings attached.
10576D	(none)	(none)	B16702	[A-D] Shell Roundels 4 With inlaid rosette patterns in red and blue (one only in outline with blue centre, the others with alternate red & blue petals). One has shell and shale rings attached.
10842	(none)	(none)	B17102	Lapis lazuli big lumps, in the rough
11162F	(none)	(none)	(none)	(A) Gaming-board. Set in silver. Shell plaques engraved with lapis borders engraved with animal scenes, except for 2 in rosettes. Only part of it was found, giving in all: 13 plaques of which 6 were still in their setting and 7 loose: these have been reset, those in original order in the top 2 rows, the rest below, and one rosette piece omitted. Orig. W. 120mm(?); plaques 32 x 40mm; 35mm square. With this must go: (B) Gaming pieces, of white shell, square with engraved scenes, in all 9 and one half piece. (C) Gaming pieces, circular, of balck shale with 5 white dots, diam. 25mm, 3 in all. (D) one white disk with blue spot. (E) Small balls of lapis, 8 in all. (F) 23 small white balls (these are perhaps counters)? (G) 3 lapis dice, of usual solid triangle with inlay dots at 2 points. (H) 6 square men, black and white spots. (NB: Some of the gaming pieces B & C were found in Chamber B.) [I] [Not assigned] (J) [J, L-M] 3 slender rods, square in section, of ivory (?) with engraved patterns on one edge and concentric circles on the other. L. 65mm, W. 4mm (K) in the inside of the board (a box) was a complete set of men, 7 white and 7 black, the former with animal scenes, the latter with 5 white dots.
11167A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-E] Shell Roundels (5) with concentric circles & central hole. [drawing 1:1]
11508	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight carnelian. Type VI. [drawing 1:1]
11916A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Two Copper disks. Slightly concave, like the pans of a scale.
12082	(none)	(none)	(none)	Roundel. Mother of Pearl. Engraved 8-petalled rosette in type as the rosettes found on tips of silver combs of early royal graves. Centre (originally in lapis?) is missing.
12712A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-G] 7 hematite weights. [A-B] 2 pebble one of reddish hematite. [C] 1 bell shaped (Type XIII), also [D] ovoid (Type I), [E] conoid (Type IV), [F] hemispherical (Type XIV), [G] lentoid (Type II).
13059	30-12-524	(none)	(none)	Hematite weight. Flat on one side, convex on the other. Type ? XIV.
13504	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Hematite. Plain, without head. Black. Type VI.
13517	31-16-509	(none)	(none)	Hematite weight. Lentoid. Type II.
13518	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Hematite. Type VI. [drawing 1:1]
13723	31-16-505	(none)	(none)	Weight of grey stone. Lentoid, with flattened base. [drawing 1:1] Type II
13733	31-17-85	(none)	(none)	Bone roundel. With engraved cross on one side. [drawing 1:1]
13749	(none)	(none)	(none)	Roundel. ? spindle whorl. Dark grey steatite. Top slightly convex. [drawing 1:1]
14003A	92-4-249A	(none)	(none)	[A-Q] 17 pebbles. Weights(?)
14338	(none)	(none)	(none)	Roundel. Mother of pearl. Perforated through centre. Slightly convex on 1 side. [drawing 1:1]
14437	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone roundel. Black (diorite?) Flat below, convex above, a small hole in the centre of the flat side, not going all through the stone. Not in cat. Vol IV
14438	31-16-492	(none)	(none)	Stone roundel. Dark grey slate or schist. Flat below, above a shallow truncated cone: small hole through centre. (chipped at edge).
15041	30-12-523	(none)	(none)	Weight Diorite? (elongated date stone) inscribed: 1 shekel. Type III.
15472	31-174-74	(none)	(none)	Gold Roundel. Filigree - open work. [drawing 1:1]