Glass

Cast

Disc or similar (ellipse, etc.)

1.70 cm

1.70 cm

0.30 cm

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

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche

Glass weight. Disc. Colour (Farbe): hellblau. Iconography: No cross. No wreath.
CPAI III/2: Middle of the 6th - 7th century AD Eastern Mediterranean. Weight for a silver coin (half siliqua). Glass, 17 x 3 mm; 0.95 g. Inv. no. PMA 2854. Acquired in 2007. Description: Pale-blue coloured, translucent round weight with a central impression. The block monogram is composed of the letters ΠA in the centre and V O thereabove. It can be resolved as ΠAVΛOV. Glass weights with this monogram are known in various colours. In most of the cases, the genitive reads VO, less often OV. Since Paulos is quite a common name in the early Byzantine period, the glass weight can hardly be connected to a specific person. A Praetorian prefect of Africae and a possible urban prefect of Constantinople bearing this name are mentioned in the 6th century.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type

{monogramma}

ΑΟΠV

LATE ROMAN AND BYZANTINE

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Pera Museum (Istanbul)	None	PMA 2854

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
CPAI III/2	None	722	pl. 193	None

2007 erworben.
CPAI III/2: Ref.: PLRE Ill: 979 (Paulus 17); 982 (Paulus 32); Diaconu 1981: 486 fig. l; Monneret Villard 1922: 104 no. H37b; Whitehouse 2003: 34 no. 930-931; Petrie 1974: 14 no. 76; pl. l.; Wamser - Zahlhaas 1998: 164; 163 fig. 209; Markoff 1910: 642 no. 28; pl. 31.