Balance Weight with Two Emperors Hunting a Snake

Unknown Artist

4th–5th century

Balance Weight with Two Emperors Hunting a Snake by Unknown Artist

Medium

Copper alloy

Dimensions

1 3/8 × 1 5/16 × 3/8 in., 2.9oz. (3.5 × 3.3 × 1 cm, 82g)

Classification

Metalwork-Copper alloy

Culture

Byzantine

Department

Medieval Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Miriam N. Rosen, 2002

Accession Number

2002.483.6

Tags

HuntingSnakes

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