This paper presents a unique bronze weight manufactured
by the order of a little-known son of [ain]Abd
al-Malik, who was governor of Jund Filastîn for a
short period. The weight, of the Byzantine disc
type, but bearing Arabic inscriptions, was found in
the excavations carried out by the Institute of
Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in
1990. It is discussed here in the context of other
metal weights of the period which bear Arabic
inscriptions but are of Byzantine form, and which
sometimes also bear Byzantine symbols and Greek
inscriptions.