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The inscription, unusually for a weight, is cut in reverse. It mentions that this stone weight was dedicated to the temple of Shamash, the sun god, at Sippar. It precisely gives the weight as 10 mina, 15 shekels, a little more than 5 kilograms. From Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habba, Babel Governorate, Iraq), Mesopotamia. Circa 1400-1200 BCE. (The British Museum, London).
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Amin, O. S. M. (2014, October 17). Stone Weight from Sippar. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/3164/stone-weight-from-sippar/
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