A Bronze Steelyard with an Acorn-Shaped Counterweight from the Paphos Agora

Steelyards were commonly used by sellers at agorae and fora during the Roman and Byzantine periods. They are based on the principle of the lever, mentioned by Aristotle and probably well-known even earlier. One steelyard made of bronze has been found, together with an acorn-shaped counterweight, at...

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Autores principales:	Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka, Maciej Wacławik
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2016
Materias:	steelyard acorn-shaped counterweight Cypriot pound Paphian pound weighing systems Ancient history D51-90 History of the arts NX440-632
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c1a12c5cdaab45998d3f4fbf78e7f1242021-11-27T13:19:14ZA Bronze Steelyard with an Acorn-Shaped Counterweight from the Paphos Agora10.12797/SAAC.20.2016.20.091899-15482449-867Xhttps://doaj.org/article/c1a12c5cdaab45998d3f4fbf78e7f1242016-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/saac/article/view/3119https://doaj.org/toc/1899-1548https://doaj.org/toc/2449-867X Steelyards were commonly used by sellers at agorae and fora during the Roman and Byzantine periods. They are based on the principle of the lever, mentioned by Aristotle and probably well-known even earlier. One steelyard made of bronze has been found, together with an acorn-shaped counterweight, at the agora of Nea Paphos during an excavation conducted by the Department of Classical Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University. Also preserved were fragments of chain and two hooks that were used to hang the weighted objects, as well as fragment of a third hook. The device represents the Pompeian type of steelyard and can be dated by analogy to other examples from the 1st century AD. The Paphos balance may be evidence of the use of a local island weighting system based on an operating unit other than the Roman pound (libra). Ewdoksia Papuci-WładykaMaciej WacławikKsiegarnia Akademicka Publishingarticlesteelyardacorn-shaped counterweightCypriot poundPaphian poundweighing systemsAncient historyD51-90History of the artsNX440-632ENFRStudies in Ancient Art and Civilization, Vol 20 (2016)
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description	Steelyards were commonly used by sellers at agorae and fora during the Roman and Byzantine periods. They are based on the principle of the lever, mentioned by Aristotle and probably well-known even earlier. One steelyard made of bronze has been found, together with an acorn-shaped counterweight, at the agora of Nea Paphos during an excavation conducted by the Department of Classical Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University. Also preserved were fragments of chain and two hooks that were used to hang the weighted objects, as well as fragment of a third hook. The device represents the Pompeian type of steelyard and can be dated by analogy to other examples from the 1st century AD. The Paphos balance may be evidence of the use of a local island weighting system based on an operating unit other than the Roman pound (libra).
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title	A Bronze Steelyard with an Acorn-Shaped Counterweight from the Paphos Agora
title_short	A Bronze Steelyard with an Acorn-Shaped Counterweight from the Paphos Agora
title_full	A Bronze Steelyard with an Acorn-Shaped Counterweight from the Paphos Agora
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A Bronze Steelyard with an Acorn-Shaped Counterweight from the Paphos Agora

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