- 58 pages
- English
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Glass Stamps and Weights
About this book
Facsimile of volume of detailed catalog prepared by Flinders Petrie on artifacts largely collected from his Egyptian explorations of a series of glass stamps of Egyptian manufacture that were used from the Roman to Abbasid period variously as tokens, counters, weights, or attached to glass cups as indications of measure. Various categories are identified and described, makers' names discussed, and weight standards considered. Over 700 stamps are illustrated both as photographs and transcribed line drawings.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Roman period
- 3. Byzantine period
- 4. Omayyad period
- 5. Abbasid period
- 6. Stamps and heavy weights
- 7. Fatimite period
- 8. The Makers
- 9. Weights with private names
- 10. Dates of private workers
- 11. The weight standards, Roman
- 12. The kharrubeh
- 13. The fels
- 14. The dinar and dirhem
- 15. Recutting of dies
- 16. Accuracy of standard and copies
- 17. Colours of glass stamps
- 18. Great families of the viiith and ixth centuries
- 19. The heavier weights
- 20. Catalogue, pl. 1. Roman stamps
- 21. Roman coin weights