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)
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.
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
10141	(none)	1935,0113.745	(none)	Tablet ?? Flat piece of silver? Tablet?? Nothing legible
10576A	(none)	1928,1010.223	(none)	[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.
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.
10576C	(none)	1928,1010.224	(none)	[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]
11883A	(none)	1929,1017.458	(none)	[A-C] 3 Roundels, [A-B] 2 of shell, [C] 1 of shale, [D] and an oval-topped shell button inlaid with a rosette of red & blue petals. D. 220mm [E] Broken pin of type VI, but with head missing; possibly this is all one composite pin-head, or perhaps only the roundels are such, as they would give just the effect of a lapis ball set in gold or silver. [drawing]
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).
13035A	(none)	1929,1017.461	(none)	[A-B] 2 Haematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum]
13035B	(none)	1929,1017.466	(none)	[A-B] 2 haematite weights. Lentoid shapes. Type II. [C-F Additional letters weights according to British Museum]
13036A	(none)	1929,1017.490	(none)	[A-B] 2 copper disks. one broken
13079	(none)	1935,0113.780	(none)	Stone fragment with 2 signs.