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LOT 4168
Byzantine Spherical Commercial Bronze Weight of 1 Uncia. Circa 5th-7th Century AD.
ɄA (A inverted) / Blank. Bendall, Byzantine Weights 23 (A not inverted). Condition as seen.(26.46gr, 20mm x 14mm.).
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 4168
Byzantine Spherical Commercial Bronze Weight of 1 Uncia.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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Babylonian Sphendonoid Hematite Weight of 5 Shekels. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £351
Grain-shaped weight stone with flat base. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.137, 9. 46.11gr, 57mm x 19mm.
Condition as seen. With ring for holding or weight adjustment.
Acquired in the 1980s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Islamic Polyhedral Bronze Weight of 2 Uqiya. Circa 7th-12th century.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £113
Fourteen-sided cubic weight, the sides decorated with crosses with pellets in angles within circular incuse; the square faces with additional five pellets. 62gr, 24mm.
Condtion as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Medieval Lead Lion Weight or Amulet. Circa 15th-16th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Plano-convex in section with lion-mask detailing to the obverse. 52.60gr, 40mm.
Condition as seen.
Property of a gentleman; acquired in the 1970s.
