Steelyard

2nd-4th century (Late Antique)

8 cm 71 cm 3 cm

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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...

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28729
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [no. 130]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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