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System of weightsessay 1938 • Hemmy, A. S.
Mature Indus • Asia > South Asia
Weights, measurements, materials, provenience, and class are listed in this analysis of 220 weights from Mohenjo-daro. They are found to have been made with great accuracy when compared to contemporary examples from Egypt and Mesopotamia....Relation to Egyptian and Sudan weightsessay 1938 • Hemmy, A. S.
Mature Indus • Asia > South Asia
This study reexamines Indus weights, calculating degree of error, and addressing assertions that the Indus system was related to others in the Near East....