Balance scale
- Museum number:
- 5-16892
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050016892
- Accession number:
- Acc.4748
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Steel balance scale consisting of a balance arm suspended in a hand-held handle. Hooks on ends of arm for holding weighing pans.
- Donor:
- Robert I. Orlins
- Collection place:
- Tomas Village, Sudan
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Tomas village.
- Culture or time period:
- Nubian
- Collector:
- Robert I. Orlins
- Collection date:
- 1964-1965
- Materials:
- Steel (alloy)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Balances (scales)
- Function:
- 7.3 Weights, Measures, and Computing Devices
- Accession date:
- February 8, 2005
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- length 16.5 centimeters and height 7.5 centimeters
- Images:
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