Corinth Object: MF 2009 7 | 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
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