1 Tremissis = 1/3 Nomisma = 1/3 Solidus

Glass

Cast

Disc or similar (ellipse, etc.)

1.65 cm

1.65 cm

0.30 cm

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

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche
--- One imperial bust

Glass weight. Disc. Colour (Farbe): dunkelblau. Iconography: No cross. No wreath. One imperial bust.
CPAI III/2: 7th century AD. Eastern Mediterranean. Weight for a gold coin (tremissis). Glass, 16.5 x 3 mm; 1.40 g. Inv. no. PMA 1536. Acquired in 2006. Description: Dark-blue coloured round weight with a central impression of an anonymous dignitary. Quite a large number of such weights are known, with slightly different portraits. Marcel Jungfleisch and Paul Balog stated that these weights, which they collected mainly from Egypt, belong to the transformation period from the Byzantine Empire to the early Islamic State. A more recently found weight from Monastiraki Katalimata can be dated to the middle and the second half of the 7th century. It shows that these weights were used in the Byzantine Empire, too.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type

LATE ROMAN AND BYZANTINE

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Pera Museum (Istanbul)	None	PMA 1536

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
CPAI III/2	None	715	pl. 190	None

2006 erworben.
CPAI III/2: Ref.: Balog 1958; Nowicki 2008: 67 pl. 39.