LOT 3522
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 1 Qedet. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1100 BC.
Bronze weight in the shape of a resting lamb; horizontal groove on base. Cf. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights 149 (3 Shekels). Condition as seen.(10.05gr, 30mm x 17mm x 10mm.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 3522
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 1 Qedet.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
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English Coin Weight for the AV Half Noble. From circa 1471.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Galley / Blank. 3.17gr, 16mm.
Condition as seen.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. -
Viking Truncated Spherical Bronze Weight. Circa 9th-11th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Truncated spherical bronze weight with engraved large X on one base and conical incuse on the other. 2.20gr, 12mm x 7mm.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s. -
Phoenician or Levantine Commercial PB Weight of 1 Mna. Time of Alexandros I Balas, 152-145 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
ΔΩΡΟΘΕΟΣ (Dorotheos), agoranomos. Dated SE 162 (151/150 BC). Galley to right with raised prow in volute, two rudders, and row of oars on each side; L BΞP (date) and A-ΓΟ-[PA?] in three lines above; ΔΩΡΟΘΕΟΥ (agoranomos) MA (denomination) in two lines below; all within square linear border / Blank. Elayi & Elayi -; Hendin -; De Rochesnard -; CPAI -; Weiß Peter, Jenseits der Agoranomie -; cf. CNG, Auction 114, lot 543 (Berytos mint, 2 Libra Weight). 692gr, 85mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired in the 1996. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
