Steelyard
Steelyards, or scales, were used in the Roman and Byzantine Empires for weighing heavy objects in the marketplace. They are, in fact, still in use today. The steelyard (named for its more recent function of weighing steel in England) consists of a balance beam divided into t...
Artifact
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id
28729
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| contentType |
contentType
object
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| stage |
stage
normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [no. 130]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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pageCount
1
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source
import
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