Replica scales (IMAGE)

University of Göttingen

Replica scales

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The type of weighing scales a Bronze Age merchant would have carried with her when moving from one market to another to trade: suspended replica bone balance scale with flax strings and leather pouches, holding two replica weights in equilibrium

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R Hermann

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