LOT 4174
Ottoman Polyhedral Bronze Weight of 5 Dirham. 18th-19th century AD.
Fourteen-sided cubic weight with six large square facets, and eight triangle facets; one square facet with five punches. Cf. CPAI 1, 393-399 (no punches). Condition as seen.(15.45gr, 13mm.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman.
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Lot of Two [2] Bone Weights of Minor Asia and the Levante. Circa 750-300 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Bone rings with wide hole. For a similar example see British Museum 1969,0401.120. 4.85gr total.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman, established from the early 2000s. -
Seleukid Empire, Commercial Lead Weight of 1 Mna. Circa 2nd-1st century BC.
Estimate: £100 - 140 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Engraved BA AN in two lines; vertical Seleukid anchor in centre / Blank. Cf. Pondera Online 14411 (Antiochia, 1/4 Mna). 474gr, 74mm.
Condition as seen.
Private collection, Austria. Private collection, Europe. -
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Stone Weight of 1 Shekel. Circa 2nd Millennium BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Stone weight in shape of a seating frog, with pierced base. For a similar weight see Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.151, 87 (hematite). 7.88gr, 30mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
