Mesopotamian duck weights Mesopotamia, about 2000-500 BCE Official weights in the shape of a sleeping duck were common in Mesopotamia from about 4000 years ago. On some an inscription gives the king's name and the weight, for example: 'half standard mina belonging to Ahhiya, son of Mudammiq-Adad, the diviner'. excavated by Hormuzd Rassam at Sippar, Southern Iraq.
aperture=f3.5 focal length: 60.0 mm exposure 1/125 sec ISO: 3200