| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 280 | |
| Title: | BRONZE BALANCE BAR | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Object Number: | 280 | |
| Description: | Fragment of bronze balance consisting of part of a long, slightly curving bar, circular in section, with an off-center hole for hanging a scale pan pierced into a roughly square protrusion at the end. Cf. Corinth XII, p. 216, #1672 and 1673 for both shape and decoration. | |
| Decoration: | End of bar near square protrusion decorated with cast bead-and-reel pattern of two reels, one thick bead, two reels. | |
| Material: | Bronze | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment preserves part of balance bar including hole at end; missing balance indicator and opposite bar. Notches in square protrusion at end of bar. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Max. Diam. of bar 0.008 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0129 | |
| Period: | No precise date (NPD) | |
| Chronology: | Byzantine period or later based on analogy with Corinth XII #1672 and 1673. | |
| Area: | Lechaion Road | |
| Context: | NB95 P75 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Lechaion Road Basket: NB95 P75 |
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