This slightly curved and handled rectangular item has been carved from a single piece, and is decorated with the engraving of three bulls, preceding toward right. Such objects are assumed to have been weights and are very often described erroneously as "locks" and ironically called in jest "handbag" or "purse". The scenes depicted and the decorative motifs used relate these objects to an iconography corresponding to artefacts excavated in Southeastern and Central Iran, Syria, Mesopotamia and the Island of Tarut in the Gulf. The most plausible hypothesis is that they were attributes of status, carried as an indication that the bearer was a person of high importance and office.
The name chlorite derives from the Greek word chloros, which translates as "green", being that a reference to the mineral's colour. Chlorite is so soft a mineral that one may scratch it by a finger nail and powder generated by such scratching comes out green. It has a soft oily feeling upon touching.