Technical Observations: The patina is green with areas of red. There are crusty brown and black burial accretions. Burial accretions were partially removed, but otherwise the weight appears rough and uncleaned.
The weight is a solid cast, but there is no indication whether a direct or indirect technique was used to make the wax model. The surfaces and overall shape are very regular, perhaps pointing to the use of a mold, which would also have been a means of making multiple, identical weights. There are three gray and black denomination marks on one of the two flat surfaces. These are presumably inlays of a secondary metal, such as lead.
Henry Lie (submitted 2012)
