Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight Mary Scheier 4 3/4" long

4 3/4" long

like this terrific vintage Modernist/Brutalist cast bronze brooch

Hail lovely art whose beauties shine / and grace the open man's every line / Be thou the pride of every youth  / Attached to virtue and to truth

Tear and some scattered staining as evident--but actually perhaps the tear makes it better

Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight Mary Scheier 4 3/4" longI'm no expert on late Roman early Byzantine bronze weights to say the least, but I am rather obsessed with this one, finding it a wonderfully mysterious, miraculous, and beautiful tiny thing. I purchased it from a favorite shop (very beautiful itself) in Vermont, where one of the two owners s himself obsessed and quite knowledge about these sorts of things. I haven't dug very deep, but from what I understand small bronze weights like this were used as