This category includes all weights that are used on scale pans in the process of weighing. 

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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)
6453 (none) (none) (none) Clay weight. Baked. 4 incised marks at top. Type XI. E. [drawing]
6455 (none) (none) (none) Weight. Black hematite. Type III. [drawing 1:1]
6502 (none) (none) B16227 Stone duck weight. Black. Type VI. E.
6514A (none) (none) (none) Weight. Black hematite. Cylinder shaped. Type III.
6542 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Stone. Gray. Type VI. E.
6739 (none) (none) (none) Weight of 20 manehs (8.08 kil) ? Material Its weigh, 20 ma-na, property (? Sa-al) of Tutu, son of Sa-ma-an-ni. Type V. H.C. B [drawing]
6783 (none) 1927,0527.47 (none) Weight. Hematite. Green. E. Type ?.
6954 (none) 1927,0527.25 (none) Duck weight. Badly damaged. "To Ningal, his lady, dShulgi the mighty man, king of Ur, king of the four regions of the world---" (? Material) E. Type VI. H.C.
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.
7611 (none) 1928,1009.456 (none) Weight haematite. Dark green. Conoid. Type IV.
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.
808 (none) (none) B15325 Basalt duck weight. Broken below the breast and badly cracked by fire. Inscribed on wing 30 true minas. Type VI
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.

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