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LOT 4146
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. With ring for holding or weight adjustment.2 1/4 in. (46.11gr, 57mm x 19mm.).
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1980s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 1/3 Shekel. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1100 BC.
Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £60
Bronze weight in the shape of a bird or duck. Cf. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.168, 173 (1/2 qedet). 2.85gr, 19mm x 7mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex S collection, London, UK, deceased; formed 1970s-1990s. -
Roman(?) Bronze Weight. Circa 1st century BC-2nd century AD.
Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
Stag standing to right between two crossed branches / Blank. 60.59gr, 37mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Byzantine Spherical Commercial Bronze Weight of 1 Uncia. Circa 5th-7th Century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
ɄA (A inverted) inlaid in silver / Blank. Bendall, Byzantine Weights 23 (A not inverted). 27.44gr, 19mm x 15mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
