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LOT 0750
Eastern Levant AE Shekel Weight
BRONZE TO IRON II AGE, CIRCA 12TH-6TH CENTURIES B.C.
1/2 in. (8.1 grams, 12 mm).
In the form of a cube engraved on one side in Paleo-Hebrew or Phoenician: ʾZZ G in two lines.
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Literature
Hendin, Ancient Scale Weights -; Pondera -; Rochesnard -; Elay & Elayi, Recherches -.
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