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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Hellenistic to Roman Imperial PB Weight of 8 Drachms or Oktadrachm. 2nd century BC-2nd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Levantine Region. Large H in relief within linear square / Blank. Cf. CPAI III, 1, 287; Pondera Online 14862. 28.11gr, 39mm.
Condition as seen. Square weight with raised and concave edges; tab broken away.
From the private collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK, 1970-1990s. -
Seleukis and Pieria, Laodicea ad Mare(?) Commercial PB Weight of 1/2 Mna or Hemimnaion. Circa 150-149 BC.
Estimate: £180 - 240 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £90
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ (Apollonios), agoranomos. Dated Seleucid Era 163 (150/149 BC). 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. -
Byzantine Invocative PB Seal in the name of Theodoros, Vatatzes (Batatzes). Circa 12th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
✠ KЄ BΟHΘ[...] Cധ ΔΟ[Υ]Λധ in four lines / ΘЄΟΔധ[...] Τധ(ligate) BAT[...]TZH in four lines. Translation: Lord, help your servant Theodoros, Batatzes. Apparently unpublished in the standard references. 4.79gr, 17mm, 12h.
Condition as seen.
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Private collection, London.
