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Medium Weight: 550g
when placed on the mummy of a commoner
collapsable design
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An Egyptian Alabaster Funerary Plummet Weight, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 - 1069 BCE high Medium Weight: 550gThis rare plummet weight is from an ancient Egyptian funerary scale. Well carved from creamy Egyptian alabaster (calcite) in the form of a pyriform ovoid vessel, the smooth body has a restricted neck and flaring rim and was suspended from a string. Such weights were used as a vertical reference line for adjusting the scale when conducting the important Weighing of the Heart ceremony. Background: The Egyptians viewed the heart as the seat of intellect
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