LOT 3536
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 2 Shekels. Circa 400-300 BC.
Bronze weight in the shape of a shell. Condition as seen.(29.12gr, 24mm x 14mm.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 3536
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 2 Shekels.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
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Babylonian Sphendonoid Hematite Weight of 5 Shekels. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Grain-shaped weight stone with flat base. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.137, 9. 45.53gr, 41mm x 22mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Byzantine PB Amulet. Circa 9th-13th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Military saint riding horse galloping to right, spearing a fallen man / Military saint riding horse galloping to left, spearing a fallen man. Apparently unpublished with the same iconography on both sides. 4.14gr, 22mm, 12h.
Condition as seen. Pierced.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Byzantine Monogrammatic PB Seal in the name of Sisinnios, Eparchos. Circa AD 600-650.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Monogram of CICINNIOY within wreath / Block monogram of ΕΠΑΡΧω(sic). Translation: (Seal of) Sisinnios, Eparchos. Cf. Schulten Frühjahr 1990, 1106. 8.06gr, 16mm, 12h.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
