Greek PB Weight of 1 Mina. Dated SE 230 (83/2 BC). Possibly Levantine region.

Greek PB Weight of 1 Mina. Dated SE 230 (83/2 BC). Possibly Levantine region. ETOYΣ ΛΣ (date) ΔHMOΣIA M-NA (denomination), two crossed cornucopiae, to left, monogram / Latticework design. Unpublished in the standard references. See Gale Brown, H., A study of lead ingot cargoes from ancient Mediterranean Shipwrecks, Vermont, 2011; cf. De Rochesnard; Pondera Online 3558. 704gr, 96mm x 95mm. (For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price.) Condition as seen.

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.Private collection, since the late 1990s.

Such commercial weights were produced in cities currently or formerly under Seleucid control. The inscription ΔHMOΣIA ('public'), indicates that this was used as an official market weight.