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Babylonian Stone Weight
ca. 1400-1200 B.C.
Material
Chlorite
Dimensions
H: 44.4 cm
Reference
12777
Price
$69,000
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Overview
This impressive weight, of an unusually large size, is carved from a monolithic block of pointed form; the surface is smooth and partially stained with bitumen. The top is pierced by a horizontal hole that may have served to transport and/or to suspend it. A small inscription, in four columns of cuneiform script, is engraved on the upper part of the weight: “one talent weight, calibrated, of the god Enlil, king of all countries”. Some other Babylonian weights of this size are known, but they are carved in the shape of ducks; the Babylonian talent officially weighed 30.520 kg.
Provenance
Art market, prior to 1970s;
Ex- E. Boustros collection, acquired in the 1970s
Bibliography
On the ancient ponderal syrods:
Measuring and Weighing in Ancient Times, Haifa, 2001.
SOUZO M.-G., Etude des monuments pondéraux de Suse, in Mémoires de la Délégation en Perse XII, 1911, pp. 1-50 (see in particular p. 31; p. 40, n. 1-2).
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