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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Antiquities| > |Antiquities by Type| > |Weights & Scales| > LT96147
Roman - Byzantine, Italy, Bronze Acorn Steelyard Pendant Weight (280.7g), c. 1st to 7th century A.D.
|Weights| |&| |Scales|, |Roman| |-| |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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