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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Babylonian Sphendonoid Hematite Weight of 5 Shekels. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Grain-shaped weight stone with flat base. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.137, 9. 45.53gr, 41mm x 22mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Byzantine Square AE Coin Weight of One Nomisma. Circa 4th-6th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Engraved in outline and inlaid with silver large Ṅ A / Blank. Cf. Bendall 105. 3.22gr, 21mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. -
Early Byzantine PB Pilgrim's Amulet. 6th-7th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Nimbate saint on horseback to left, holding cruciform sceptre / Pillar-saint St. Symeon (Stylites) orans atop a large central column, flanked by two angels flying in; reliquary(?) to right and small figure going to climb ladder on left. Cf. L. Wamser: Die Welt von Byzanz - Europas östliches Erbe, 310; for tokens with similar iconography see G. Vikan, Byzantine Pilgrimage Art, fig. 22, 24, 25, 29-30. 2.42gr, 19mm, 12h.
Condition as seen. Pierced; suspension loop missing.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
