Glass

Cast

Disc or similar (ellipse, etc.)

2.00 cm

2.00 cm

0.50 cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
2.30	-	-	(scientific literature)	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche

Glass weight. Disc. Colour (Farbe): dunkelblau. Iconography: No cross. No wreath.
CPAI III/2: Middle of the 6th - 1st half of the 7th century AD. Eastern Mediterranean. Weight for a silver coin (siliqua). Glass, 20 x 5 mm; 2.30 g. Inv. no. PMA 2875. Acquired in 2007. Description: Dark-blue coloured, transparent round weight with a central impression. The cruciform monogram is composed of the letters P on the left, Ο at the bottom, E on the right, and Γ and V at the top. The monogram can be resolved like cat. no. 733 as CEPΓΙ.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type

{monogramma}

ΓΕΟΡV

LATE ROMAN AND BYZANTINE

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Pera Museum (Istanbul)	None	PMA 2875

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
CPAI III/2	None	734	pl. 197	None

2007 erworben.
CPAI III/2: Ref.: Wamser 2004: 367 fig. 863; Gorny & Mosch 142, 2005: 253 no. 3363; Schwarzer 2009: 99; pl. 4,89; Whitehouse 2003: 36 no. 936.