A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 176
larThe sliding weight (now lost) must have weighed about 17.000 grs \i 2 164 GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE. (2f lb. avoirdupois). All the other steelyards here shown work onthis principle, though many have only two graduated scales andtwo suspending hooks. Fig. 197 shows a highly ornate example of a… … Fig. 198.—Roman Bronze Balances (Nos. 477, 480). Ca. 1:4. The steelyard principle was also applied by the Romans tobalances, with a view to avoiding the use of numerous small weights.An example is No. 477 (fig. 198), where one half of the bronze armis graduated with twelve divisions corresponding…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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