LOT 3530
Minor Asia and Levante Bone Weight of Uncertain Standard. Circa 750-300 BC.
Dome-shaped bone ring. For a similar example see British Museum 1969,0401.120. Condition as seen.(5.16gr, 25mm x 7mm.).
ProvenanceFound Hebron in 1971.
From the Gabby family collection, 1960s-1970s.
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LOT 3530
Minor Asia and Levante Bone Weight of Uncertain Standard.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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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. -
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Babylonian Sphendonoid Hematite Weight of 10 Shekels. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Grain-shaped weight stone with flat base. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.137, 8-9 var. (5 Shekels). 88gr, 59mm x 26mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Viking Polyhedral Bronze Weight. Circa 9th-11th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Polyhedral bronze weight with 'bird's eye' patterns and a large groove on the sides. 4.67gr, 12mm x 6mm.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
