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Steelyard Weight   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Byzantine Empire)Unknown author
Title
Steelyard Weight
Description
English: This rare, bronze counterweight was used with a steelyard. Filled with lead, it would have been moved along the calibrated arm of the scales until the beam balanced. This large weight is distinguished by its unusual subject of a young man in a long-sleeved tunic holding a small animal, possibly a lamb; it may therefore have been used by a butcher.
Date 5th century
date QS:P571,+450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
(Late Antique)
Medium bronze filled with lead
Dimensions height: 21.9 cm (8.6 in); width: 12.5 cm (4.9 in); depth: 10.1 cm (3.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,21.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,12.5U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,10.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
54.2654
Place of creation east Mediterranean
Object history
  • Michael Ward, New York, ca. 1977, by purchase
  • L. Alexander Wolfe, Jerusalem [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase
  • Sale, Frank Sternberg, Zurich, November 20, 1989, no. 423
  • Walters Art Museum, 1989, by purchase
Credit line Museum purchase, 1989
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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