Reconstruction of an ancient Greek marble metrological relief from Aegaena, Western Turkey, 460 - 450 BC. This pediment-shaped relief, may have hung a

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Reconstruction of an ancient Greek marble metrological relief from Aegaena, Western Turkey, 460 - 450 BC. This pediment-shaped relief, may have hung above the entrance to the weights and measures office in the marketplace of the city. Each feature, the hand span, foot and arm cut-out represents different units of measurement. A similar relief was found on the island of Salamis, near Athens. Metrology is the science of measurement.

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Size: 7500px × 4000px
Photo credit: © DAVID PARKER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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