Glass

Cast

Disc or similar (ellipse, etc.)

2.40 cm

2.40 cm

0.50 cm

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

Symbol	Technique	Direction	Position	Number	Synecdoche

Glass weight. Disc. Colour (Farbe): dunkelblau. Iconography: No cross. No wreath.
CPAI III/2: Middle of the 7th century AD? Eastern Mediterranean. Weight for a gold coin (solidus/20 carat). Glass, 24 x 5 mm; 3.25 g. Inv. no. PMA 2857. Acquired in 2007. Description: Dark-blue coloured, transparent round weight with a central weathered impression. Within a circle, a hardly visible monogram is likely composed of the letters NE in ligature on the left, Λ at the bottom, P on the right, Φ in the centre, and T and the ligature  at the top. The monogram has been resolved by John Nesbitt as ΦΛOPETIN or ΦΛOPENTIN, although the name is actually written with an omega and not an omicron. Therefore, the resolution is questionable. The other weights with this type of monogram are made of a yellow or pale green glass. A light-weight solidus of 20 carat with an actual mass of about 3.25 g is known from the time of Constans II.

No

Language	Technique	Legend type

{monogramma} 

Unknown-29

LATE ROMAN AND BYZANTINE

Name	Date of acquisition	Inventory number
Pera Museum (Istanbul)	None	PMA 2857

Reference	Page/Column	Reference (number)	Plate / Figure	Comment
CPAI III/2	None	740	pl. 199	None

2007 erworben.
CPAI III/2: Ref.: Perassi 2002: 456-458; 473 fig. 6; 474 fig. 7a-b; Monneret Villard 1922: 104 no. H33c; Frohner 1879: pl. 11 no. 64; Markoff 1910: 641 no. 22-23; pl. 31; Adelson 1957: 170 no. 167.