LOT 3534
Minor Asia and Levante Bone Weight of Uncertain Standard. Circa 750-300 BC.
Bone ring with wide hole. For a similar example see British Museum 1969,0401.120. Condition as seen. Tag attached, inscribed 'Hord 19/10/71 from Hebron' and '1.47 gms'.(1.47gr, 19mm x 6mm.).
ProvenanceFound Hebron in 1971.
From the Gabby family collection, 1960s-1970s.
Accompanied by an old identification tag.
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LOT 3534
Minor Asia and Levante Bone Weight of Uncertain Standard.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
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Byzantine Square AE Commercial Weight of 3 Unciae. Circa 4th-6th century AD.
Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £675
Engraved in outline (and inlaid with silver) large cross between Γᴑ Γ; all beneath arch supported by two columns / Blank. Bendall 67. 80gr, 32mm x 10mm.
Condition as seen. Square commercial weight with edge of three tiers.
Private collection, Switzerland, 1990s. European private collection, acquired in 2001. -
Babylonian Truncated Pyramidal Bronze Weight. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1100 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Weight in form of truncated pyramid with bird(?) flying to right on the bottom. 7.57gr, 13mm x 10mm.
Condition as seen. Pierced for holding or weight adjustment.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Ottoman Polyhedral Bronze Weight of 10 Dirham. 17th-18th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Polyhedral bronze weight; tughra on one side. Cf. Kürkman 143. 30.17gr, 17mm.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
