Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight antique wood The winder can be a

The winder can be a bit jerky if held horizontally rather than vertically (but not problematically so

which for me rather enhances its end-of-the-day feeling

and what I take for a bee and a mosquito

with a 2 Cent Washington stamp on reverse

though now one could also just stuff something in it and hang it

Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight antique wood The winder can be aI'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