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Object Type
Museum number: 1892,0613.64
Description: Glass weight; discoidal; light purple; stamped box monogram.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 6thC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Asia (?)
Materials
Type series
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 16.60 millimetres (max); Diameter: 12 millimetres (of incuse); Weight: 1.01 grammes
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Entwistle 2008 / A Catalogue of the Late Roman and Byzantine Weights and Weighing Equipment in the British Museum (626); Dalton 1901 / Catalogue of Early Christian Antiquities and Objects from the Christian East in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (677); Entwistle 2016 / A Catalogue of the Late Roman and Byzantine Weights and Weighing Equipment in the British Museum (cat.no.627, p.70); Monneret de Villard 1922 / Exagia bizantini in vetro (no. H 38a); Forien de Rochesnard 1973b / Les poids de verre (no. F 34c); Forien de Rochesnard 1987 / Album des poids antiques. Vol 3: Rome et Byzance (no. F 34c)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Weathered; deeply pitted; traces of iridescence
Associated names
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1892
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1892,0613.64

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