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Original scientific paper

Late Antique and early Byzantine spherical bronze commercial weights housed in the Archaeological Museum in Split

Jelena Jovanović


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Abstract

The 33 bronze weights from the Late Antiquity Collection in the
Archaeological Museum in Split are catalogued in this paper. They
exhibit the oldest (spherical) shape of commercial weights, used
throughout the territory of the Eastern and Western Empires.
Most of them have Greek or Latin letters on their surfaces as
designations of their mass, while on six of them it is impossible to
ascertain the markings due to considerable damage. A total of 24
weights originated in Solin (Salona), one is from Gardun (Tilurium),
while the archaeological context and circumstances are unknown
for eight weights. The weights have been dated to the period
spanning the third to sixth centuries.

Keywords

Late Antique and early Byzantine weights; Archaeological Museum in Split; spherical weight

Hrčak ID:

92806

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/92806

Publication date:

15.11.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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