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Steelyard and Portrait Weight
Steelyard and Portrait Weight

Steelyard and Portrait Weight

Date4th or early 5th century
Maker Byzantine
Object number67.50
Credit LineMargaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund
Dimensions11 5/8 x 11 3/4 in. (29.5 x 29.8 cm)
MediumBronze
Gold weight
Gold weight
Ghanaian
Object number: 68.72
Gold Weight: Turtle
Gold Weight: Turtle
Ghanaian
Object number: 68.132
Image Not Available for Gold Weight: Sawfish
Gold Weight: Sawfish
Ghanaian
Object number: 68.156
Gold Weight: 2 Figures with Drum
Gold Weight: 2 Figures with Drum
Ghanaian
Object number: 59.103
Weight, form of fantastic animal
Weight, form of fantastic animal
Burmese
17th century
Object number: 71.17
Image Not Available for Frog weight
Frog weight
Elamite (modern southwestern Iran)
Object number: 41.117
Image Not Available for Weight
Weight
Babylonian
4th-3rd millennium B.C.
Object number: 41.116
Image Not Available for Weight
Weight
Babylonian
4th-3rd millennium B.C.
Object number: 41.118
Photo: Paul Macapia
Figurative Weight (abrammuo): Men Meeting
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.361
Photo: Paul Macapia
Figurative Weight (abrammuo): Birds
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.362
Photo: Paul Macapia
Figurative Weight: Leopard
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.390
Photo: Paul Macapia
Figurative Weight (abrammuo): Scorpion
Ghanaian
Object number: 81.17.394