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Stone Weight

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Spherical black stone (basalt or hematite?) weight, flattened on both sides. One side bears a value mark of three small circles in a triangular arrangement.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics The Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University (unknown-2012) transfer; to the Harvard Art Museums 2012. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
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Title: Stone Weight
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Spherical black stone (basalt or hematite?) weight, flattened on both sides.
One side bears a value mark of three small circles in a triangular arrangement.

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