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glebe:
Lot 1221 (see below) is interesting because we don’t see many Levantine weights on such a heavy weight scale (with a mina of c.650 gm) and mostly they are from the northern Levant (Syria) with Greek legends, whereas 1221 is from Phoenicia. Elayi & Elayi 286 is another example, weighing 1305 gm.

For more details see Finkielsztejn:

https://www.academia.edu/12593340/2014_The_Weight_Standards_of_the_Hellenistic_Levant_Part_One_-_The_Evidence_of_the_Syrian_Scale_Weights_INR_9

https://www.academia.edu/35065895/2015_The_Weight_Standards_of_the_Hellenistic_Levant_Part_Two_-_The_Evidence_of_the_Phoenician_Scale_Weights_INR_10.pdf

The Elayi & Elayi 292 weight from Marathos that you referred to is another 100 shekel example, but on the commoner 460 gm mina standard.

Ross G.

glebe:
According to Peus (i.e, Fischer presumably) Lot 1244 (below) is a "heavy Roman pound" of 1 pound 3 ounces, an idea that apparently comes from Schilbach.

Actually, at 437 gm it seems to be 1 pound 4 ounces, i.e, 4/3 x the Roman/Byzantine pound of 327 gm, rather than 5/4. The reading of the legend is uncertain, to say the least.

And the Attic trading mina was 459 gm, not 437 - the latter was originally the Euboic mina used for coinage.

Ross G.

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