Weights (11)
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 0886
label: Date made
content: ca. 886
notes: label: Description
content: Eleven circular Turkish weights, marked with dates between 272 and 278 (corresponding to 886-892 C.E.). Cyrus Adler, a Biblical archaeologist with a PhD from the Johns Hopkins University who served as Honorary Curator of the Smithsonian’s Department of Antiquities, collected these in Constantinople, in 1891.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Turkey
label: collected in
content: Turkey: İstanbul province, Constantinople
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.178938
label: accession number
content: 30910
label: catalog number
content: 178938
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Weights
label: Object Type
content: Weights
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
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label: Measurements
content: overall: container: 2 in x 5 in x 5 in; 5.08 cm x 12.7 cm x 12.7 cm