Obv.: To l., Phocas standing, crowned; in r. hand, gl. cr. To l., Leontia standing, crowned, holding cruciform scepter transversely in r. hand. Between heads, cross.
Rev.: m. Above, cross.
This fifth- to seventh-century steelyard weight in the shape of an empress represents the most common type of weight used with early Byzantine steelyard scales (1). Earlier scholarship proposed that each weight represented a specific Byzantine…
This flat square weight was used for weighing coins on a balance scale. The inscription provides unusually detailed and precise information concerning the object’s date of issue: twentieth of Phamenoth, eighth indiction (16 March 575 CE). It is rare…