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)
2716 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. Dark grey pebble of extended oval shape. Type II.
2820 (none) (none) (none) Stone wedge. Diorite; possibly uses as weight.
2831 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. Roughly rounded blackish volcanic stone. Type VIII. [drawing 1:1]
2849 (none) (none) (none) Copper weight. Conical. Type IV. [drawing 1:1]
2908 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Silver. Type VI.
2912 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. Reddish brown pebble with faces ground flat. Type ? VIII.
3027 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. Blue stone pebble with 2 sides ground flat. Type ? VIII
3114 (none) 1927,1003.82 (none) Plumb-bob. White limestone. [drawing 1:1]
3141 (none) (none) (none) Minute. Duck weight. Of carnelian, nicely cut. Type VI.
3180A (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Three stone weights. Elongated oval, polished. Type II.
3180B (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Three stone weights. Elongated oval, polished. Type II.
3180C (none) (none) (none) [A-C] Three stone weights. Elongated oval, polished. Type II.
3185 (none) 1927,1003.81 (none) Stone plumb-bob. Drab limestone of poor quality. [drawing 1:1]
3205 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. Fragment. Blue stone. Probably Ibi-Sin. Type ? H.C.
3212 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. Clouded marble of extended oval shape. Type II
3242 (none) (none) (none) Small weight (?). Black mineral matter, pierced at top. Type? [drawing 1:1]
3260 (none) (none) (none) Small stone weight. Sausage-shaped with four small cuts to indicate value. Type III. [drawing 1:1]
3285 (none) (none) (none) Stone duck weight. Large specimen, of greyish stone with tail broken. Type VI.
3290A (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Duck weights. Of black stone and shell, latter better carved. Type VI.
3290B (none) (none) (none) [A-B] Duck weights. Of black stone and shell, latter better carved. Type VI.
3360 (none) 1927,1003.66 (none) Polished weight. Of green volcanic stone: sectional cut roughly oblong. Type V. [drawing 1:1]
6007 (none) 1927,0527.43 (none) Duck weight grey steatite head and tail slightly chipped. Type VI.
6008 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Black hematite.
6010 (none) (none) (none) Weight? Ovoid, flattened on one side, of grey pebble. Type I.
6011 (none) 1927,0527.54 (none) Weight? Black diorite egg-shaped with sharply pointed end. Type I? [drawing 1:1]

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