Portable Balance Scales
Small balances and standard weights for markets, medicine, metal trade, taxation, and craft production.
Core metadata
- ID: portable_scales
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -3000 (century)
- Region: Global / multiple regions
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
- Standardized Weights and Measures (standardized_weights_and_measures)
- Town Market Squares (town_market_squares)
Dependents
- Coin Die Engraving (coin_die_engraving)
- Coin Mint Assay Offices (coin_mint_assay_offices)
- Net Sinker Weights (net_sinker_weights)
- Salted Trade Provisions (salted_trade_provisions)
- Urban Food Market Regulation (urban_food_market_regulation)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Hanging in the Balance: Precision Weighing in Antiquity (Penn Museum, 2005, museum) • Supports: edge, node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 2
- Average edge confidence: 68%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- expert_inference: 2
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standardized Weights and Measures (standardized_weights_and_measures) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Standardized Weights and Measures provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Town Market Squares (town_market_squares) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Town Market Squares provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
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