LOT 4168
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 18 Shekel. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC. Babylonian standard.
Bronze weight in shape of a duck, with head turned towards the tail and with flat base. Cf. Μünz Zentrum Auktion XLIX, Teil IV, 5001 (hematite). Condition as seen. Very rare weight.(157gr, 59mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 4168
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 18 Shekel.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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Seleukis and Pieria, Laodicea ad Mare(?) Commercial Lead Weight of 1/2 Mna or Hemimnaion. Dated Seleucid Era 163 (150/149 BC). ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ (Apollonios), agoranomos.
Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £63
ΑΠΟΛΛധΝΙΟΥ Τ Ο Υ TA[...]OY [...] ꞀΞΡ (date) in five lines, two crossed cornucopiae below, monogram(?) to left / Blank (letters in central field?). Pondera Online -; Weiß Peter, Jenseits der Agoranomie -; Rochesnard -; CPAI -. 362gr, 93mm x 70mm.
Condition as seen. Suspension tab.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Roman Imperial PB Seal. Circa 3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Draped female bust to right / Blank. 2.10gr, 15mm.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s. -
Islamic PB Weight of Uncertain Standard. Circa 6th-9th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Inscription in three lines / Blank. 4.22gr, 13mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
