Mensa ponderaria из Пантикапея
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21815015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Институт истории материальной культуры РАН (corresponding author), Natalia Pavlichenko (0000-0002-0238-842X) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeological News (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1817-6976 |
| Publisher | Institute for the History of Material Culture Russian Academy of Science (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.31600/1817-6976-2020-29-50-59 |
| OpenAlex | W3112490172 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
This paper considers a passportless fragment of a block made of a local dense medium-porous fine-grained limestone which arrived to the Eastern-Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum-Preserve in 2012. The shape of this block and the shape of the remaining hemispheric funnel terminating in a hole allows us to argue that this is a widely spread device in the Ancient world used as a capacity measure for liquid products being on sale — mensa ponderaria. Considered analogies from other Greek poleis show that sekomata were used to exert state control over weights and measures on par with measure vessels
Data mining · Funnel · Geometry · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Ancient Near East History · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Mathematics · Artificial Intelligence · Geology · Mechanical Engineering
| Highly cited | No |
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