{"id":5722,"date":"2019-09-24T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=5722"},"modified":"2025-01-16T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T09:47:21","slug":"weights_07","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/portfolio-item\/weights_07\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Byzantine 4-Keratia Glass Weight (6-7 century CE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A four <em>keratia <\/em>\u201cImperial\u201d glass weight<\/strong> of the Byzantine Period (17 mm in diameter, weighing 0.62 g), used for weighing gold coins. The obverse depicts a haloed Imperial bust above a cross-shaped monogram flanked by two smaller busts. The monogram reads E\u03a5\u0398A\u039bIO\u039d (\u2018<em>of Euthalios<\/em>\u2019 in Greek). Archaeologist have discovered various glass weights weighing either a <em>nomisma<\/em>\u00a0(24\u00a0<em>keratia<\/em>), a\u00a0<em>semissis<\/em>\u00a0(12\u00a0<em>keratia<\/em>) or a\u00a0<em>tremissis<\/em>\u00a0(<em>8 keratia<\/em>), some of them bearing the monogram of the same <em>Euthalios<\/em>. This is the only example known of a four-<em>keration<\/em> denomination glass weight.<\/p>\n<p>Weights of this type have been described as \u2018Imperial\u2019 due to the presence of one or more imperial busts. The name Euthalios apparently refers to a high-ranking Byzantine official under whose authority the weights were manufactured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An \u201cImperial\u201d glass weight of the Byzantine Period, used  for weighing gold coins. Imprinted with a trio of saints and the cross shaped monogram of Theodosius III, of the early 8th century CE. Both the quality of the glass as well as the impression are strikingly similar to weights produced in  European workshops and  hence are likely of that origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[290],"portfolio_entries":[363,375],"class_list":["post-5722","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-weights","portfolio_entries-virtual-museum","portfolio_entries-weights"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/5722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5722"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/5722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11067,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/5722\/revisions\/11067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5722"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=5722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}