Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | MF 2009 7 | |
Title: | BYZANTINE LIMESTONE SPHERICAL WEIGHT | |
Category Code: | MF | |
Year: | 2009 | |
Object Number: | 7 | |
Description: | Hard gray limestone weight, doubly truncated sphere with shallow depressions gouged at the bottom and top. Cf. MF 4434, MF 5550 (Corinth XII, p. 214, nos. 1657-1658, pl. 97), MF 1995 8. Four librae equal 1309.8 grams. See S. Bendall, Byzantine Weights: An Introduction, London 1996, p. 24. | |
Material: | Hard gray limestone | |
Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact but worn, pock-marked, slightly chipped on the sides, with accretions. | |
Manufacture: | Roughly chiselled. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | Diam. 0.097, H. 0.08 | |
Weight Description: | 1.41 | |
Weight: | 1.41 | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Chronology: | Corinth XII, p. 207 | |
Area: | Nezi Field | |
Context: | Nezi Field, context 6409, LOT 2009 051 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Nezi Field Image: digital 2010 4281 Basket: Nezi Field, context 6409 |