Coin weight
- Museum number:
- 5-1489
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050001489
- Accession number:
- Acc.1149
- Description:
- Glass coin weight; dark purple color; translucent. Obverse: inscription in center. Reverse: blank. Diameter: 1.5 cm. Weight: 1.53 grams.
- Donor:
- Harold Heath and Ida Shelley
- Collection place:
- Old Cairo, Cairo, Lower Egypt
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Egypt: old Cairo
- Culture or time period:
- Arab Egypt (641–969 AD)
- Materials:
- Glass (material)
- Object type:
- archaeology
- Object class:
- Coins (money)
- Function:
- 7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
- Accession date:
- 1954
- Context of use:
- Glass coin weights were used to check the weight of gold and silver coins in the marketplace.
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Legacy documentation:
-