371, Lot: 1336. Estimate $200. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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A pair of lead weights. Hellenistic or Eastern Roman. One weighs 49.92 g (41x38mm, likely 1/8 libra), with a legible Greek inscription in four lines; the other weighs 86.50 g (43x55mm, likely 1 uncia), with an adjustment protrusion and Greek letters on the obverse (beginning with a date ETOYC [...]) and a design, possibly a monogram, on the reverse. Cf. Hendin,
Weights pp. 190ff for lead weights of this period. Both intact.