Steelyard Weight with the Bust of Athena 350-500 Byzantine A number of weights like this one survive from the late antique period. Weights were calibrated to specific standardized measurements. They were hung from hooks on one end of a balance to counter whatever goods were weighed on the other side. Bronze weights in the forms of courtly and mythological women are fairly common. The survival of classical subjects, such as Athena here, shows the pervasive taste for antiquity well into the early Byzantine period.. Steelyard Weight with the Bust of Athena. Byzantine. 350-500. Copper alloy, filled with lead. Metalwork-Copper alloy

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Steelyard Weight with the Bust of Athena 350-500 Byzantine A number of weights like this one survive from the late antique period. Weights were calibrated to specific standardized measurements. They were hung from hooks on one end of a balance to counter whatever goods were weighed on the other side. Bronze weights in the forms of courtly and mythological women are fairly common. The survival of classical subjects, such as Athena here, shows the pervasive taste for antiquity well into the early Byzantine period.. Steelyard Weight with the Bust of Athena. Byzantine. 350-500. Copper alloy, filled with lead. Metalwork-Copper alloy

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