LOT 4482
Phoenicia, Tyre. Commercial Lead Weight of Half Libra. Circa 115-114 BC.
Club within egg-and-dart frame; uncertain symbol to left / Blank. Wollf and Finkielsztejn Fig 2.; Pondera Online 12864 (this weight). Condition as seen.(110gr, 38mm x 40mm.).
ProvenanceEx Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Online Auction 270, 12 March 2020, lot 2682 (part of).
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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Hardstone Weight of Uncertain Standard. 1st millennium BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Stone weight in shape of a dome. 11.85gr, 17mm.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of the late Mr S.M., 1969-1999, thence by descent. -
Late Roman or Early Byzantine Glass Weight or Jeton. 4th-6th century AD. Egypt or Levante region.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Seven-branched menorah with base / Blank. 1.22gr, 18mm.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of the late Mr S.M., 1969-1999. -
Levant & the Near East AE Weight of 1 Shekel. Late Bronze Age to Iron Age II, 1500-587 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Bronze weight in shape of a head with suspension loop attached. Cf. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, 122. 8.82gr, 20mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
