balance
- Museum number
- 1902,1108.101
- Description
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Copper alloy portable balance-scales; arm of thin rod with perforated ends; central suspension attachment a folded strip with hinged end; sheet pans slightly dished; three suspension holes around edge.
- Production date
- 6thC-7thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 3.10 centimetres (pan)
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Length: 10.50 centimetres (scales)
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
Unrecorded, but said to be from "the district of the Rhine and Moselle", Germany; recent research has shown that the vendor has been notoriously unreliable.
Given by The Friends of The British Museum
Acquired from David Reiling of Mainz through Max Rosenheim
Published:
SMITH R.A. 1923. A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic Antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. London, p. 157
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1902,1108.101