1 Uncia

Copper alloy (bronze or brass)

Cast

Shell

2.50 cm

- cm

0.80 cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
22.57	-	-	CPAI II	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche

CPAI II : Shell-shaped, bronze cast; bottom is flat; corroded. Thse kind of so-called weights ranges from the 4th century BC through the Roman Imperial Period. Thirtyone shells of this kind from Modena and eighty from Caesarea Maritima range in fact in a quite different dimensions and masses supporting that they may not be weights. Although the mass of our specimen corresponds to one uncia in Roman system, the so-called shell shaped "weights" were not intended to be produced as weights but some may have been used as weights if their masses correspond to any unit.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type

GREEK , ROMAN

CPAI II : Roman Imperial Period.

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Archaeological Museums Istanbul	Jan. 1, 2001	01.105 (M)

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
CPAI II	None	096	26	None

CPAI II : Mint : Eastern Mediterranean/Aegean.
Cf.: Robinson 1941, nos. 2462-2463; Crowfoot - Crowfoot-Kenyon 1957, no. 12; Qedar 1979, no. 4090; Zappaterra 1999, p. 134, no. 10; Corti - Pallante - Tarpini 2001, fig. 206; Hendin 2007, nos. 233-234, 271-276; Hadat 2007, fig. 2; Holland 2009, p. 59-64, fig. 7; CPAI Turkey 1, nos. 36-39, 44.