Inventory | Ethnography | Bilancia
- Common name
- Scales
- Material
- iron, wood
Description
The scale was an instrument based on the lever principle, with a wooden base and two plates. Groceries were placed on one plate, and weights on the other until the plates were balanced to measure weight.
Use
- Areas of use
- commercial and public service activities
- Specific use
- measuring instrument
- Craft
- shopkeeper
Preserved specimen
Instrument based on the lever principle, consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which two cymbals are placed (missing)
Cataloging
- SIRBeC
- 7s020-00497
