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Steelyard weight in the form of the emperor Constantine I,
5th century
Early Byzantine
y1955-3257
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Title
Steelyard weight in the form of the emperor Constantine I
Dates
5th century
Medium
Bronze filled with lead
Dimensions
12.5 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm (4 15/16 x 2 3/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase
Object Number
y1955-3257
Place Made
Gaul [?]
Period
Purchased from Piero Tozzi, New York, in 1955.
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"News reports", College art journal 15, no. 4 (Summer, 1956): p. 361-369.
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Art of the Late Antique from American Collections: a loan exhibition of the Poses Institute of Fine Arts [held at] Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, December 18, 1968-February 16, 1969, (Waltham, MA: Poses Institute of Fine Arts?, 1968).
, cat. no. 30; pl. XVII - R. G. Calkins, A medieval treasury: an exhibition of Medieval art from the third to the sixteenth century, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1968)., cat. no. 42, p. 129f, pl. 42 (illus.)
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Romans and barbarians, (Boston, MA: Museum of fine arts, 1976).
, cat. no. 135 (illus) - Kurt Weitzmann, ed., Age of spirituality: late antique and early Christian art, third to seventh: catalogue of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 19, 1977, through February 12, 1978, (New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979)., cat. no. 137 (illus.); pl. 3 (color illus.)
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Natalie B. Kampen, E. Marlow, and R.M. Molholt, What is Man?: changing images of masculinity in Late Antique art, (Portland, OR: Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, 2002).
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