Open AccessMensa ponderaria из Пантикапея?
Author(s) -
Н. Павличенко,
Институт истории материальной культуры Ран
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
arheologičeskie vesti
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1817-6976
DOI - 10.31600/1817-6976-2020-29-50-59
Subject(s) - measure (data warehouse) , block (permutation group theory) , funnel , computer science , geography , geology , archaeology , artificial intelligence , mathematics , geometry , engineering , data mining , mechanical engineering
This paper considers a passportless fragment of a block made of a local dense medium-porous fine-grained limestone which arrived to the Eastern-Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum-Preserve in 2012. The shape of this block and the shape of the remaining hemispheric funnel terminating in a hole allows us to argue that this is a widely spread device in the Ancient world used as a capacity measure for liquid products being on sale — mensa ponderaria. Considered analogies from other Greek poleis show that sekomata were used to exert state control over weights and measures on par with measure vessels.