Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight almanac tobacco box perhaps a secret code

perhaps a secret code

Perhaps best of all are her little crocheted booties

It looks to me her head has not been repaired

Oil on unstretched canvas

Good from every angle and really nice as part of a grouping with a few other linear sorts of things

Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight almanac tobacco box perhaps a secret codeI'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