LOT 3515
Babylonian Truncated Pyramidal Bronze Weight. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1100 BC.
Weight in form of truncated pyramid with bird(?) flying to right on the bottom. Condition as seen. Pierced for holding or weight adjustment.(7.57gr, 13mm x 10mm.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 1 Qedet. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1100 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Bronze weight in the shape of a resting lamb; horizontal groove on base. Cf. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights 149 (3 Shekels). 10.05gr, 30mm x 17mm x 10mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Byzantine PB Amulet. Circa 9th-13th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Military saint riding horse galloping to right, spearing a fallen man / Military saint riding horse galloping to left, spearing a fallen man. Apparently unpublished with the same iconography on both sides. 4.14gr, 22mm, 12h.
Condition as seen. Pierced.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Babylonian Sphendonoid Hematite Weight of 10 Shekels. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Grain-shaped weight stone with flat base. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.137, 8-9 var. (5 Shekels). 88gr, 59mm x 26mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
