Abstract
Three metal weights retrieved from Khirbat Burin were used with small balances, either simple or folding. Weight No. 1 is a cubical iron weight, ranging in date from the late Fatimid to the Mamluk periods, and even as late as the nineteenth century CE. Weight Nos. 2 (a polyhedral) and 3 are made of bronze and were probably used for measuring coins during the Mamluk period.
Keywords
Syria-Palestine, technology, measuring, weight system
Recommended Citation
Kletter, Raz
(2019)
"The Glass Vessels from Khirbat Burin (pp. 219–240),"
'Atiqot: Vol. 94, Article 9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.2033
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol94/iss1/9
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