Ancient bronze scale pan excavated in Sussiya

ANCIENT ARTIFACT: Bronze scale pan found in ancient Sussiya reveals how biblical law shaped daily Jewish life. Neta, a second-grader at the regional school in Sussiya, and her father, Nachshon, discovered the pan inside a residential building near the town’s main street (Miriam Sela-Eitam, Jerusalem Post).

According to the statement, the bronze pan was part of a set of portable hanging scales common in ancient Israel, which included two small bowls with tiny holes along their rims suspended across a balance.

Beyond "ancient," the article does not suggest a date for the object. The ruins uncovered at Sussiya (also Susya or Susiya) so far are from late antiquity and the Hasmonean period.

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