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Weight
Greek
Probably Hellenistic Period
Medium/Technique
Bronze
Dimensions
Length x width: 3.8 x 3.8 cm (1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8317
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Ancient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsTools and equipment – Weights and measures
Catalogue Raisonné
Greek, Etruscan, & Roman Bronzes (MFA), no. 683.
DescriptionThe face is slightly depressed and is inscribed (see Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston no. 683, p. 467). Brownish patina, with some encrustation.
Attic.
Attic.
ProvenanceBy 1901: with E. P. Warren (according to Warren's records: [this is one of a group of weights] bought in Munich. [The weights] constituted lot 425 in the Margaritis-Helbing sale of 1899: were collected by the late D. Margaritis & are, in provenience, Attic.); purchased by MFA from E. P. Warren, December 1901