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Details
LOT 3510
Babylonian Sphendonoid Hematite Weight of 10 Shekels. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Grain-shaped weight stone with flat base. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.137, 8-9 var. (5 Shekels). Condition as seen.(88gr, 59mm x 26mm.).
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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