18110 | 1932,1008.82
| Description (Catalog Card): | Stone weight. Greenish steatite. Inscribed at one end [drawing of cuneiform characters]. Type XIX. [drawing 1:1]1 |
| Find Context (Catalog Card): | High in Persian level of the houses in the NE side of NNCF. |
| Material (Catalog Card): | Steatite2 |
| Measurement (Catalog Card): | l. 0092 diam 004 ends 003 |
| U Number: | 18110 |
| Museum: | British Museum |
| Object Type: | Weights and Measures >> Balance Pan Weights >> Other Weights |
| Season Number: | 10: 1931-1932 |
| Description (Modern): | Highly polished green stone with darker specks. Related to gabbro with olivine/chlorite component? Harder than steatite/serpentine or chlorite. Body high polish, ends very flat but not polished. Light scratches across body, most apparent at unpolished ends. Shape bulges in the middle and is rather barrel-like. Inscribed on one end with two deeply cut signs and several light signs in different hands. Practice ostracon? |
| Material: | Inorganic Remains >> Stones and Minerals >> Stone >> Metamorphic >> Greenstone >> Steatite |
| Museum Number (BM Big Number): | 123140 |
| Museum Number (BM Registration Number): | 1932,1008.82 |
| Measurement (Weight): | 313.0 |
| Measurement (X): | 92 |
| Measurement (Y): | 43 |
| [1] Woolley's description |
| [2] Material as described by Woolley |
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| Location | Context Title | Context Description | Description (Modern) |
|---|---|---|---|
| NNCF | This area lies beyond (north/northwest of) Nebuchadnezzar's corner fort (NCF) at the west corner of the temenos wall. In seasons 10 and 11 the area was somewhat systematically excavated, initially creating a shallow trench from the northwest terrace and temenos wall almost to the city wall some 100 meters away. According to the 1932 reports, it was "enlarged into a regular excavation covering the area of a number of houses," and this expansion was continued in season 11. Excavations were taken through Persian (mostly surface) level down only a small depth to relatively well preserved house remains of the late Kassite and Neo-Babylonian periods. Many of the houses had graves under their floors. Woolley did not map or record the houses or graves, saying in his Antiquaries Journal report for 1932 (p.390): "They produced no objects of importance, but the graves did yield a certain number of glazed vases, beads and seals." Publication does not do justice to the extent of this excavation area. Only XNCF, a smaller excavation of domestic space along the NW temenos is published in UE8 and that in only a few paragraphs. | (none) |
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| Woolley's Catalog Cards | Woolley's Catalog Cards | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:71 Page:105 | Card -- BM ID:194 Box:71 Page:105 | (none) |
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