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| Keywords: Byzantine - Steelyard Weight - Walters 542654 - Back.jpg This rare bronze counterweight was used with a steelyard Filled with lead it would have been moved along the calibrated arm of the scales until the beam balanced This large weight is distinguished by its unusual subject of a young man in a long-sleeved tunic holding a small animal possibly a lamb; it may therefore have been used by a butcher century 5 Late Antique bronze filled with lead cm 21 9 12 5 10 1 accession number 54 2654 33920 Michael Ward New York ca 1977 by purchase L Alexander Wolfe Jerusalem date of acquisition unknown by purchase Sale Frank Sternberg Zurich November 20 1989 no 423 Walters Art Museum 1989 by purchase Museum purchase 1989 place of origin east Mediterranean Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman art in the Walters Art Museum Decorative and applied arts of Byzantine Empire Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
