A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 174
ded by the hooknearest the graduated bar (as in the fig.).Objects weighing up to nine Roman poundscould thus be weighed by moving a slidingweight along the bar. The figure V will beseen at the fifth pound, the half pounds aremarked by three dots, and the twelfths corre-spond to the unciae. The… … WEIGHTS AND SCALES. 163 second and third scales, multiples of five and ten pounds are markedby the figures V and X. Fifty pounds is indicated by the letter n ,
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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