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 View CategoriesHome > Catalog > |Antiquities| > |Antiquities by Type| > |Weights & Scales| > LT96147Roman - Byzantine, Italy, Bronze Acorn Steelyard Pendant Weight (280.7g), c. 1st to 7th century A.D. Steelyards with acorn shaped counterweights were in use from the 1st century A.D. to the late Roman and Byzantine times. This weight is close to a very light Byzantine pound (285g) (cf. Ballance et al. 1989, 134). See Waclawik, M. "A bronze steelyard with an acorn-shaped counterweight from the Paphos Agora" in Studies in Art and Civilization 20 (Krakow, 2016) (PDF Available) for a similar but larger (405.5g) acorn weight and steelyard. The article notes that another similar scale and acorn weight was found at Pompeii.
LT96147. Bronze weight, Romano-Byzantine acorn steelyard pendant weight, cf. BnF Bronzes 1277, part of loop missing otherwise complete and intact, light corrosion, light encrustation, 280.7g, 62mm tall, 33mm maximum diameter; SOLD
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