| Assyrian lion weights | |
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 Three of the lion weights in the British Museum. The table below lists all the known lion and duck weights from Nimrud as of the late 19th century. | |
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| Material | Bronze |
| Writing | Phoenician language and cuneiform |
| Created | c. 800–700 BC |
| Discovered | 1845–51 |
| Present location | British Museum |
| Identification | ME 91220 |
The Assyrian lion weights are a group of bronze statues of lions, discovered in archaeological excavations in or adjacent to ancient Assyria.
The first published, and the most notable, are a group of sixteen bronze Mesopotamian weights found at Nimrud in the late 1840s and now in the British Museum.[1] They are considered to date from the 8th century BCE, with bilingual inscriptions in both cuneiform and Phoenician characters; the latter inscriptions are known as CIS II 1-14.