Lead

Cast

Shell

3.30 cm

3.30 cm

1.00 cm

Mass (g)	Mass (grain)	Date of measurement	Reference	fragmented	cleaned	reference weight
76.70	-	-	CPAI Turkey 1	No	No	Yes

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche

CPAI Turkey 1: Shell in form, bottom is flat. Weights in form of shell are rare when compared with other common forms and it is difficult to date them. The mass of this piece may correpond to four-stater in Greek system or three-unica in Roman (libra) system. Shell weights from Olynthus may be dated to the fourth century BC (then four-stater?) and pseudo-shell weights drom Bondeno and Modena (both in Northern Italy) are dated to the Roman Imperial Period. Since forms of these four examples are similar to those found in Bodeno and Modena they may be dated to the Roman Imperial Period. Some scholars believe that shells of lead and bronze were not used as scale weights. Thirty-one 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. On the other hand, the examples which have a concave bottoms filled with lead may indicate that some were used as weights. But in general we may conclude that shells of lead were not weights.
Cf. Robinson 1941, n°2462-2463; Crowfoot-Kenyon 1957, n°12; Manns 1984, p. 22, n°37-38; Zappaterra 1999, p. 134, n°10; Corti-Pallante-Tarpini 2001, fig. 206; Hendin 2007, n°271-276; Hadat 2007, fig. 2; Holland 2009, pp. 59-64, fig. 7.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type

GREEK , ROMAN

Roman Imperial Period (or Hellenistic?).

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Silifke Museum	Jan. 1, 2010	2011/36 (A) - (KP 2)
Klima Plus Collection	None

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
CPAI I		36	9

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