Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1996, III, no. 240.
The use of animal forms and bronze as a material were a New Kingdom innovation for weights. There are faint traces of strokes on the right flank of this ibex indicating its weight (21.8 gms is approximately equivilant to 3 shekels or ¼ deben). Cf. A. Kozloff et al., Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and his World, Cleveland, 1992, p. 428, no. 116, for similar larger weight and further discussion on Egyptian weights.
Animals, 1996, III, no. 240.
The use of animal forms and bronze as a material were a New Kingdom innovation for weights. There are faint traces of strokes on the right flank of this ibex indicating its weight (21.8 gms is approximately equivilant to 3 shekels or ¼ deben). Cf. A. Kozloff et al., Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and his World, Cleveland, 1992, p. 428, no. 116, for similar larger weight and further discussion on Egyptian weights.