Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight Mary Scheier Tear and some scattered staining

Tear and some scattered staining as evident--but actually perhaps the tear makes it better

with very light spotting to the surface of the lacquer visible under bright light

Each measures approximately 6 5/8" x 4 3/4" x 1 1/8"

but I don’t care much--just quite an evocative thing

with chunky screwed on nose and big drippy red mouth

Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight Mary Scheier Tear and some scattered stainingI'm no expert on late Roman early Byzantine bronze weights to say the least, but I am rather obsessed with this one, finding it a wonderfully mysterious, miraculous, and beautiful tiny thing. I purchased it from a favorite shop (very beautiful itself) in Vermont, where one of the two owners s himself obsessed and quite knowledge about these sorts of things. I haven't dug very deep, but from what I understand small bronze weights like this were used as