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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4566959, member: 93416&quot;]Thanks for posting this – fascinating stuff!</p><p><br /></p><p>First to your own weight – as you say – hard to be sure but from the pic I would agree with you – probably V for uncia&nbsp;&nbsp; (and maybe(?) II for two)</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the the reference to the Temple of Castor from your seller – well I do not think it is correct for your own weight – but it opens up a fascinating back story – (some might say a ‘can of worms’).</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently Kisch mentions Castor weights in passing on page 150 of his book – but I do not have a copy. Can anyone assist?</p><p><br /></p><p>Hunting around on line however I find that back in 1929 James Frazer, in his five-volume edition of Ovid&#039;s Fasti (Fastorum libri sex p 268), claims there are lots of weights citing the standard of the temple of Castor…...</p><p><br /></p><p>At first sight one might think Frazer was nuts – since hardly anyone else says this anywhere on the web – and likewise - your comment here is almost true</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>However – hunting further I found Christies auction of 26 April 2012 lot 332 included a Roman cup weight with the inscription “EX A S CAS”</p><p><br /></p><p>Using that as a platform I went on to find these web pages</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.trismegistos.org/abb/abbreflist.php?combin_id=14028" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.trismegistos.org/abb/abbreflist.php?combin_id=14028" rel="nofollow">https://www.trismegistos.org/abb/abbreflist.php?combin_id=14028</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.trismegistos.org/abb/detail.php?id=14216" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.trismegistos.org/abb/detail.php?id=14216" rel="nofollow">https://www.trismegistos.org/abb/detail.php?id=14216</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you open the top one and then follow links for the last two entries on the list you get to pictures – and they show two more inscribed cup weights…….</p><p><br /></p><p>So - perhaps even the second web page is all to do with a whole lot more weights?</p><p><br /></p><p>Where does that get us? It starts to look like there might well really be quite a lot of weights citing the temple of Castor.</p><p><br /></p><p>We come across these in passing in the work of Frazer, a guy fascinated with pagan religions.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Kisch, an amateur enthusiast.</p><p><br /></p><p>In auction catalogues - if they happen to come up for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the work of a group of people fascinated by Ancient abbreviations – (but with no interest in weight standards what so ever).</p><p><br /></p><p>Not a single professional archaeologist has ever mentioned this rather interesting matter, as far as I can tell.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can anyone correct me on that?</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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