Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight Mary Scheier not visible with lid on

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with chunky screwed on nose and big drippy red mouth

which fits very tightly (I started to remove it

Each measures approximately 6 5/8" x 4 3/4" x 1 1/8"

Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight Mary Scheier not visible with lid onI'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