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)
28	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone plumb-bob. of fine greyish-white limestone. [drawing 1:1]
114	(none)	(none)	(none)	Haematite Weight (?). [drawing 1:1] Type III
158	(none)	(none)	(none)	Iron ingot (?). Barrel-shaped with flattened ends: much oxidized.
163	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Carnelian. Type VI
236	(none)	(none)	(none)	Duck weight. Black, in dolerite (?). Type VI.
240	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone duck weight. Type VI.
514	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone duck weight. Black schist(?) Fragmentary. The head carved with more detail than is usual. Type VI
515	(none)	(none)	(none)	Haematite weight. [Below] Very thin and long. Inscribed III. Inscribed III Type III
808	(none)	(none)	B15325	Basalt duck weight. Broken below the breast and badly cracked by fire. Inscribed on wing 30 true minas. Type VI
823A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-E] Five Roundels green stone. Flat below and domed above possibly lids for vases?
823B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-E] Five Roundels Green stone. Flat below and domed above possibly lids for vases?
823C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-E] Five Roundels Green stone. Flat below and domed above possibly lids for vases?
823D	(none)	1923,1110.67	(none)	[A-E] Five Roundels Green stone. Flat below and domed above possibly lids for vases?
823E	(none)	(none)	B14955	[A-E] Five Roundels Green stone. Flat below and domed above possibly lids for vases?
1101	(none)	(none)	B15730	Duck weight. Black granite. Rough P.
1176	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone weight. grey stone. [drawing 1:1]
1190	(none)	(none)	(none)	Portion of a large black diorite duck-weight, originally of 30 minas. Much broken, both on the head and across the middle. On one side of the neck, a crescent moon in low relief, on other side, part of an inscription dedicating the object for the life of a king of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur: the name is now missing. R.1. No. 84.
1201	(none)	(none)	(none)	Stone duck weight. Light red stone, (small) with scorpion engraved on under side. Type VI. [drawing 1:1]
1202	(none)	1924,0920.52	(none)	Haematite boar's head. (small : side broken away.) [drawing 1:1]
1502	(none)	1924,0920.184	(none)	Stone plumb bob. Black stone, polished : with hole at end and 2 at side, and remains of copper wire within. P. [drawing]
1504	(none)	(none)	B15729	Stone weight(?) grey-black stone. Flattened on underside. Incised marks (possibly Aramaic letters) Type I. P. [drawing].
1505	(none)	1924,0920.182	(none)	Weight (?) Black stone. Blunt-end cigar-shaped. Type II. [drawing 2:5]
1506	(none)	1924,0920.183	(none)	Stone weight (?) Mottled mauve-black stone. Like U.1505 (smaller) Type II.
1507	(none)	(none)	B15731	Stone weight. Mottled black stone. Like U.1506 (more elongated). Type II. P. [Philadelphia]
1508	(none)	1924,0920.185	(none)	Weight (?) Black stone, with groove cut round the middle. Like U.1507, more elongated. Type III.