Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight antique wood but only very very rarely

but only very very rarely do I find them

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I also love how it holds this fish tight against its chest in a gesture which

And then a little bump out for the polka dotted base across the front of which the talons wrap

and what I take for a bee and a mosquito

Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight antique wood but only very very rarelyI'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