LOT 3553
Viking Truncated Spherical Bronze Weight. Circa 9th-11th century AD.
Truncated spherical bronze weight with engraved large X on both bases. Condition as seen.(21.84gr, 19mm x 14mm.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
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Levant & the Near East Bronze Weight of Half Shekel. Iron Age, after 900 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Relief of deity's head, possibly Astarte, with tall headdress; all on cubical base. For a similar weight cf. Hendin 184. 4.91gr, 10mm x 10mm x10mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 1 Qedet. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Bronze weight in the shape of a bull's head. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights 161. 9.06gr, 17mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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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.
