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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Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Large Ṅ B engraved in outline (and inlaid in silver); all within wreath / Blank. Bendall 45. 8.83gr, 18mm.
Condition as seen. Octagonal coin weight.
Ex London, Mayfair, UK, collection.
Octagonal coin weights are rarer than commercial weights of the same shape. -
Ottoman Polyhedral Silver Weight of 3 Dirham. After 17th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Polyhedral silver coin; one side with cross-like groove. 7.25gr, 10mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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.
