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

though now one could also just stuff something in it and hang it

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

with the box glazed in bright white and the flat lid in grays and yellow feeling very late 50s modernist abstraction

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