LOT 3511
Babylonian Sphendonoid Hematite Weight of 5 Shekels. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Grain-shaped weight stone with flat base. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.137, 9. Condition as seen.(45.53gr, 41mm x 22mm.).
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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Byzantine PB Seal of the Church of Apameia. 6th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
EKΛΗCIAC in three lines within wreath / Block monogram of AΠAMEIAC. Translation: (Seal of) the church of Apameia. Unpublished in the standard references. 8.23gr, 21mm, 12h.
Condition as seen. Very rare ecclesiastical seal.
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Private collection, London. -
Anglo-Saxon Lead Weight. 9th-12th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Wheel / Blank. 11.64gr, 19mm.
Condition as seen.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. -
Roman Stone Weight with Iron Handle. 2nd-3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Squat stone block, oblate in profile with studs and rings to the upper face, iron handle with hooked ends. 853gr, 98mm x 56mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex Simmons Gallery, London E11, UK, in the 1990s. From a North London collection.
