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

Objects: Balance Pan Weights Export: JSON - XML - CSV

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
808 (none) (none) B15325 Basalt duck weight. Broken below the breast and badly cracked by fire. Inscribed on wing 30 true minas. Type VI
1101 (none) (none) B15730 Duck weight. Black granite. Rough P.
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]
1504 (none) (none) B15729 Stone weight(?) grey-black stone. Flattened on underside. Incised marks (possibly Aramaic letters) Type I. P. [drawing].
1507 (none) (none) B15731 Stone weight. Mottled black stone. Like U.1506 (more elongated). Type II. P. [Philadelphia]
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
1701 (none) (none) B15732 Stone Weight. Black stone. Cigar shaped with 6 incised strokes. Type II
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
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]
2716 (none) (none) (none) Stone weight. Dark grey pebble of extended oval shape. Type II.

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