Tools and Equipment
Stone Weight
2nd-mid 1st Millennium BCE
Description
Spherical black stone (basalt or hematite?) weight, flattened on both sides. One side bears a value mark of three small circles in a triangular arrangement.
Dimensions
4.03 x 3 cm (1 9/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Provenance
The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection, Department of the Classics, Harvard University (unknown-2012), transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2012.
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