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‘Atiqot 94 (2019)
ISBN 2948-040X
Metal Weights from Khirbat Burin
(pp. 241–243)
Raz Kletter
Keywords: Syria-Palestine, technology, measuring, weight system
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.