{"id":9682,"date":"2015-04-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/prodotto\/poids-romano-byzantins-et-byzantins-en-alliage-cuivreux-2\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T09:55:07","slug":"poids-romano-byzantins-et-byzantins-en-alliage-cuivreux-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/p\/poids-romano-byzantins-et-byzantins-en-alliage-cuivreux-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poids romano-byzantins et byzantins en alliage cuivreux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronze weights dating from late antiquity and the early Byzantine period are among the prized possessions of the numismatic department of the Museum of Art and History in Geneva. This catalogue raisonn\u00e9 includes over 500 square and round weights from the 4th to the 7th century, as well as four \u201cRoman\u201d scales and weights. These weights make up two distinct series, those used in trade, marked in pounds and ounces, and those marked in nomismata, which were used to check the weight of gold <em>solidi<\/em> (individiually or in groups, from 2 to 72).<br \/>\nThis book highlights a feature that has been largely neglected in previous publications: the type of edging on the weights. Seemingly unimportant, this aspect actually makes it possible to identify where each weight was manufactured, something that has received little attention precisely because of the lack of evidence. Moreover, it incorporates certain important strides made in the study of iconography.<br \/>\nThere is no question that this book will become a standard reference work on the subject as well as being the catalogue of Byzantine weights in the Museum of Art and History in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matteo Campagnolo<\/strong> is a curator in the numismatic department of the Museum of Art and History in Geneva and a lecturer at the University of Geneva (Department of the Sciences of Antiquity).<br \/>\n<strong>Klaus Weber<\/strong> is an expert in Byzantine metallurgy and numismatics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronze weights dating from late antiquity and the early Byzantine period are among the prized possessions of the numismatic department of the Museum of Art and History in Geneva. This catalogue raisonn\u00e9 includes over 500 square and round weights from the 4th to the 7th century, as well as four \u201cRoman\u201d scales and weights. These&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9659,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[51],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9682","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-ancient-art","7":"collana-collections-byzantines-du-mah-geneve-en","8":"disponibilita-si","9":"description-off","11":"first","12":"outofstock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=9682"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9682"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivecontinentseditions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}