Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight Mary Scheier Tear and some scattered staining

Tear and some scattered staining as evident--but actually perhaps the tear makes it better

Hail lovely art whose beauties shine / and grace the open man's every line / Be thou the pride of every youth  / Attached to virtue and to truth

the basic goal is to grab one jack while throwing the ball in the air then letting it bounce once and catching it

Each measures approximately 6 5/8" x 4 3/4" x 1 1/8"

which fits very tightly (I started to remove it

Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight Mary Scheier Tear and some scattered stainingI'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