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Lot 105

1 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£4,000 - £6,000

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A Roman bronze steelyard balance and weight
Circa 1st-2nd Century A.D.
The counterpoise bust, possibly portraying an emperor, depicted wearing a wreath and a cuirass, suspended from a beam of rectangular cross-section with conical terminals, engraved on three faces with graded divisions and stippled letters, the other face with a stippled inscription, one end of the beam with attachment rings and hooks, and two additional hooks suspended on chains from a collar, 16¼in (41.3cm) length of beam; 3¼in (8.1cm)

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Provenance:
English private collection.
With Royal Athena Galleries, New York, Art of the Ancient World, volume XVIII, 2007, no. 50.
German private collection, formed between the 1960s-1970s.

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