Aulus Julius Diogenes, agoranomos?

Ephesos

4 Uncias

Lead

Cast

Square

5.00 cm

6.10 cm

0.75 cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
106.33	-	-	Auction Archaeological Center 2007	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche

Auction Archaeological Center 2007: Palestine (?), A Roman Period rectangular lead weight with a handle and high pyramidal frame, 106.33 gr., 5.0×6.1 cm., 7.5 mm. thick. In the frame a large letter Δ is marked. On the back a Greek inscription reads: ΑΥΛΟΥ | ΙΟΥΛΙ|ΕΥ ΔΙΟΓΕΝΩ =. In good condition. (A. Spaer coll. no. W-91). Now published in Kushnir-Stein 2009−10, 209−210 no. 3.
Vandermeiren: Poids de forme carrée, volume légèrement pyramidal, aux bords en relief, dépassants, bien marqués. Lettre Δ gravée au centre de la face. Poignée de forme trapézoïdale, sans contremarque. Revers lisse avec une inscription ; l. 1 outrepasse le bord de l’objet; l. 2 à 4 centrée. Inscription: . . Υ̣ΛΟΣ̣. / ΙΟΥΛΙ/ . . ΔΙΟ̣ / Γ Ε̣?Ṇ?OΣ̣

No

Language	Technique	Legend type
Greek	Relief	Authority, Denomination

Δ

Α̣Υ̣ΛΟΥ̣
ΙΟΥΛΙ
Ο̣Υ̣ΔΙΟ̣
ΓΕ̣ṆOΥ̣Σ̣

δ´. || Α̣ὔ̣λου̣ | Ἰουλί|ο̣υ̣ Διο̣|γέ̣ν̣ου̣ς̣.

GREEK , ROMAN

FROM 1 TO 300

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Antiquities Trade	April 4, 2007	None
Spaer Collection	None	W-91

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
Auction Archaeological Center 2007b	18, 20	425	None	None
Kushnir-Stein 2009–10	209−210	3	Fig. 3	None
SEG 60	None	1868	None	None

Kushnir-Stein 2009−10: A Palaestinian provenance of this weight is possible but not certain, as there seem to be no specifically local features in either its shape of its inscription.
For similar weights (especially the inscription on the reverse), see https://pondera.uclouvain.be/artifact/12127/, https://pondera.uclouvain.be/artifact/18283/