Copper bar casting, steelyard, 2,000 BC

Made:
1933 in London
Cast of copper bar of a shape probably used as a steelyard

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Cast of copper bar of a shape probably used as a steelyard
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Cast of copper bar of a shape probably used as a steelyard. Barely legible inscritpions prove the date to be not later than 2,000 BC. No. 113897 in B.M.

Details

Category:
Weighing & Measuring
Object Number:
1933-84
type:
steelyard and replica
credit:
British Museum Trustees (Dept. of Egyptian & Assyrian Antiquities)