Ancient Roman bronze steelyard weight.

Ancient Roman bronze steelyard weight, with the distinct side silhouette of the stylized male face, showing a prominent nose, a textured chin/beard area, and the contour of the decorative headdress or hair. It served as a sliding counter-weight on a steelyard balance scale (known in Latin as a statera). Merchants throughout the Roman Empire used these scales to weigh goods and commodities in marketplaces. These weights were hollow-cast from copper alloy (bronze) via the lost-wax method and subsequently filled with molten lead to achieve a precise weight requirement Accession #: 5611 3D Model made with Artec Space Spider This work is part of the collaboration agreement between Global Digital Heritage and the Museum of Archaeology, Paleontology, and Science (MAPS). We thank the museum staff at MAPS for their collaboration and efforts.