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Bronze weight in the form of a knucklebone (astragalus). An inscription on the top of the handle gives the weight as 30 pounds according the set of standard weights and measures kept at the Temple of Castor in Rome.
Date Roman
Medium bronze
Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes
Place of discovery Nîmes
Exhibition history Previously in the Musée archéologique, in the old college of the Jesuits, Nîmes; now in the Musée de la Romanité.
Inscriptions CAST XXX = (exactum ad) CAST(oris) XXX (librae)
Notes Photographed in 2007 in the Musée archéologique
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  • L. Luciani and T. M. Lucchelli, "Pondera exacta ad Castoris", in M. Buora and S. Magnani (eds.), Instrumenta inscripta VI: Le iscrizioni con funzione didascalico-esplicativa (Trieste 2016), pp. 265–289, at 267–268
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