Weight Shaped Like a Frog
- Title
- Weight Shaped Like a Frog
- Rights
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain
- Date
- ca. 2000-1600 BCE
- Description
- A weight carved in the shape of a frog, weighing 10 minas (about 500 grams or 18 ounces). Crafted out of some type of stone that's dark in color: a mixture of browns, grays, black, and white peppered together. The weight looks as if the frog is at rest, legs tucked underneath itself and eyes closed. It's lips are in a neutral position.
- Format
- Carving. Stone, diorite or andesite. 12.3 x 21.8 cm (4 7/8 x 8 5/8 in.)
- Publisher
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Contributor
- Akira Castillo
- Identifier
- 1988.301
- Subject
- Weight; Frog; Babylon; Ancient.
- Source
- Jpeg file. Unknown photographer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collection. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327369
- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327369
- Item sets
- Calaveras of Dia De Los Muertos-Akira C.
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