A Zebu-Shaped Weight from Tel Beth-Shemesh Author(s): Ely Levine, Shlomo Bunimovitz and Zvi Lederman Source: Israel Exploration Journal, Vol. 61, No. 2 (2011), pp. 146-161 Published by: Israel Exploration Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23214237
The choice of Zebu to create a bronze weight indicates the association of the bovine with metalwork. This association is explained emphatically as an Indus Script hieroglyph read rebus in Meluhha (Indian sprachbund, 'language union' of Sindhu-Sarasvati Civilization): पोळ pōḷa, 'zebu, bos indicus' rebus: pōḷa 'magnetite, ferrous-ferric oxide Fe3O4', पोलाद pōlāda, 'crucible steel
Magnetite, ferrite ore cluster wealth-category or wealth-classification
FS 10 (Frequency in M Corpus 54) Bos indicus, zebu. Humped bull.
