Details
LOT 4478
Levant & the Near East AE Weight of 1 Shekel. Late Bronze Age to Iron Age II, 1500-587 BC.
Bronze weight in shape of a head with suspension loop attached. Cf. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, 122. Condition as seen.(8.82gr, 20mm.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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