Balance Weight with Christ Blessing Two Eparchs or Emperors

Balance Weight with Christ Blessing Two Eparchs or Emperors

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Glass weights conformed to the standards for weights. Here either two eparchs, officials who regulated trade, weights, and measures, or two emperors are shown blessed by Christ. In Byzantium, precise measurement of goods was achieved by a set of standard balance weights.

Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Museum's collection of medieval and Byzantine art is among the most comprehensive in the world. Displayed in both The Met Fifth Avenue and in the Museum's branch in northern Manhattan, The Met Cloisters, the collection encompasses the art of the Mediterranean and Europe from the fall of Rome in the fourth century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. It also includes pre-medieval European works of art created during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age.