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)
114 (none) (none) (none) Haematite Weight (?). [drawing 1:1] Type III
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
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]
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.
1508 (none) 1924,0920.185 (none) Weight (?) Black stone, with groove cut round the middle. Like U.1507, more elongated. Type III.
1547 (none) (none) (none) Stone Duck Weight. White limestone. (Weathered0 Type VI
1548 (none) (none) (none) Weight (?) of white stone or marble; elongated oval in shape; pierced horizontally through greatest breadth. Type II
1550 (none) 1924,0920.205 (none) Roughly fashioned human hand, with fingers. Dark grey stone. [drawing 2:5]
1709 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Hard, light, black stone. Type VI.
1710 (none) (none) (none) Stone Weight. Black stone. Cigar-shaped with 3 strokes incised. Type II.
1714 (none) (none) (none) Stone Duck weight. Yellow stone. Type VI.
2519 (none) (none) (none) Weight. Basalt. Inscribed. [inscription] : igi 6 gal = 1/6. Type I
2532 (none) 1927,1003.62 (none) Duck weight. Black stone. Type VI [drawing 1:1]
2536 (none) (none) (none) Stone plumb-bob. [drawing 1:1]
2590 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. Granite. Type VI.
2646 (none) (none) (none) Duck weight. greyish stone. Type VI.
2667 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. Graded grey stone. Type II. [drawing 1:1]

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