Eight Bronze Weights
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Early Islamic bronze weights represented a new weight system and showed their difference from Roman and Byzantine weights in their shape, punched decoration, and assayer marks. While small early Islamic weights continued the Byzantine disk shape, larger ones took the form of decorated barrels, truncated bicones, or polyhedrons.
Artwork Details
- Title: Eight Bronze Weights
- Date: 750-1050
- Geography: Made in Eastern Mediterranean, excavated at Aqaba, Jordan
- Medium: Bronze, molded and punch-marked
- Dimensions: Range: 3/16-1 x 1/2-1 in. (0.4-2.5 x 1.3-2.5 cm); wt: 2.0-1491g
- Classification: Metalwork
- Credit Line: Aqaba Archaeological Museum, Jordan (right to left: AM 649, 514, 648, 645, 528, 647, 527, 644)
- Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters