Weights from Antioch-on-the-Orontes and Seleucia in Pieria in the Archaeological Museum of Hatay (south-eastern Turkey)


Lafli E., Buora M., Kaya F. H.

in: Instrumenta inscripta IX, Keryx, Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Archäologie der Karl-Frazens-Universität Graz, Wolfgang Spickermann,Reinhold Wedenig, Editor, Karl-Frazens-Universität Graz, Graz, pp.239-250, 2024

  • Publication Type: Book Chapter / Chapter Vocational Book
  • Publication Date: 2024
  • Publisher: Karl-Frazens-Universität Graz
  • City: Graz
  • Page Numbers: pp.239-250
  • Editors: Wolfgang Spickermann,Reinhold Wedenig, Editor
  • Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

In this brief paper we present a collection of 39 inscribed bronze and lead weights curated in the Archaeological Museum of Hatay in south-western Turkey. All the weights are inscribed with Greek letters or numerals, and are held in the museum by acquisition. At least a part of these weights originate most probably from the region or city of Antioch-on-the-Orontes. Some of them bear concentric rings on their underside and most of these belong to the Late Roman–Early Byzantine period.