Ancient and Byzantine Weights from Tire Museum including one Islamic Dirham

Abstract

This article focuses on the balance weights housed in the Tire Museum, a local museum in Western Anatolia. The collection consists of 63 weights made of lead and bronze (including one glass weight). Some of these are dated to the Hellenistic period, while others belong to the Roman and Byzantine periods. Since Ephesus is the closest archaeological site to Tire, it is possible that a significant portion of the weights may have originated from or been used in Ephesus.