Glass disk, greenish white color; coin weight. Obverse: 3 lines of illegible inscription in Arabic in the center. Reverse: blank. Diameter: 2.7 cm. Weight: 5.94 grams. Double dirhem weight.
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)
Collector:
Harold Heath
Collection date:
ca 1906
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 coins weights were used to check the weight of gold and silver coins in the marketplace to make sure of their value.