Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight Mary Scheier like this terrific vintage Modernist/Brutalist

like this terrific vintage Modernist/Brutalist cast bronze brooch

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

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

Hail lovely art whose beauties shine / and grace the open man's every line / Be thou the pride of every youth  / Attached to virtue and to truth

not visible with lid on

Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight Mary Scheier like this terrific vintage Modernist/BrutalistI'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