LOT 3529
Minor Asia and Levante Bone Weight of Uncertain Standard. Circa 750-300 BC.
Bone ring with narrow hole. For a similar example see British Museum 1969,0401.120. Condition as seen.(1.79gr, 23mm x 4mm.).
ProvenanceFound Hebron in 1971.
From the Gabby family collection, 1960s-1970s.
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LOT 3529
Minor Asia and Levante Bone Weight of Uncertain Standard.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Ottoman Polyhedral Silver Weight of 3 Dirham. After 17th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Polyhedral silver coin; one side with cross-like groove. 7.25gr, 10mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Neo-Babylonian(?) Silver Weight. Circa 8th-6th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Silver weight in the shape of a duck; stylised figure engraved to base. 4.91gr, 15mm x 9mm.
Condition as seen. Pierced for suspension.
Ex late London, UK, gentleman, 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.
