Currently not on view
Circular Weight,
5th–6th century
Byzantine
y1940-26
Information
Title
Circular Weight
Dates
5th–6th century
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
diam. 2.5 x 0.8 cm (1 x 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum Collection
Object Number
y1940-26
Place Made
Egypt, Alexandria
Inscription
Inscription: two letters indicating that the piece weighs the equivalent of one ounce (one ounce= 27.65 grams) [see accession card for reproduction];
Culture
Materials
Subject
Possibly from the old collection; acquired by the Museum by at least 1940.
- Dorothy Eugenia Miner, Early Christian and Byzantine art: an exhibition held at The Baltimore Museum of Art, (Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1947)., p. 139, no. 709; pl. 51
- Slobodan Curcic and Archer St. Clair, Byzantium at Princeton: Byzantine art and archaeology at Princeton University: catalogue of an exhibition at Firestone Library, Princeton University, August 1 through October 26, 1986, (Princeton, NJ: Dept. of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, 1986)., no. 171; p. 145
