New Suggestions for Personal Names on a Group of 'Western Asia Minor' Balance Weights from the Roman Imperial Period at the Pera Museum

This article presents twelve lead balance weights from the Roman Imperial period at the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum. Oğuz Tekin previously published these weights in the catalog as part of the Corpus Ponderum Antiquorum et Islamicorum (CPAI) project, which documents the balance weights in museum collections in Türkiye. In the catalog, Tekin left the epigraphic autopsy and possible solutions for the marketplace officials mentioned on the weights for further research. For this reason, this article focuses on the epigraphy of some of these balance weights. This article reviews these inscriptions and provides addenda and corrigenda to them. The findings presented here significantly improve our comprehension of the names of the marketplace officials on the balance weights originating from ‘Western Asia Minor’. The names of these new marketplace officials are as follows: 1) P. Aelius Marcellus (corrigendum), 2) M. Aurelius Metrodoros, 3) M. Aurelius Neratius Philometor (corrigendum), 4) Flavius Aristion (corrigendum et addendum), 5) Tib. Flavius Meliton (corrigendum et addendum), 6) Iulius Claudius Modestus (corrigendum), 7) Iulius Hermolaos and Claudius Genesios (corrigen­dum), 8) Tatianus (corrigendum), 9) Apollonios, Varus, Hermippos, 10) P. Aelius Hermippos (corrigendum et ad­dendum), 11) Apollonios (corrigendum), 12) Tib. Claudius Varus (corrigendum).