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Scales with arms of equal length

    • Provenienza:
      Pompeii, 14 September 1877
    • Data:
      1st century AD
    • Materiali:
      Bronze
    • Dimensioni:
      height 26 cm, length 32 cm
    • Collocazione:
      Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
    • Inventario:
      inv. 115626
  • Scales with arms of equal length

The Romans called this type of scales trutina. They have a hanging hook at the centre of the beam and weighing pans at each end - one for weights and the other for the material to be weighed.