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Weighing Implements

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	One of three pan balances from the shipwreck. (slide# GW-2305) Photo: INA.		One of three pan balances from the shipwreck. (slide# GW-2314) Photo: INA.
	Reconstruction of the arrangement of one of the pan balances. (slide# GW-3491) Photo: INA.		The Byzantine steelyard.  Photo: INA.
	The Byzantine steelyard from the side. (slide# GW-2291) Photo: INA.		A set of balance-pan weights. (slide# GW-3468) Photo: INA.
	Director George Bass testing some of the weights using a modern balance pan. (slide# GW-1813.2) Photo: INA.		Fatimid glass weights for weighing gold and silver coins. Some of the glass weights bear legible dates, the latest being either 1024/25 or 1021/22, serving as a terminus post quem for the shipwreck. (slide# GW-2536) Photo: INA.
	Four of the Fatimid glass weights. (slide# GW-2540) Photo: INA.