Hi Everyone,
I want to announce the new book by Professor Oguz
Tekin "Balance Weights in the Aegean World. Classical and Hellenistic Periods"
Historically, balance weights are as old as the balances themselves. Actually, balance and weight examples of Mesopotamian,
Egyptian and Hittite civilisations are known from wall paintings, reliefs, papyri and
collections. However, the scope of this book is the balance weights produced and used in the Aegean world during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Balance weights were among the instruments of public sphere (instrumenta publica) of
antiquity and they constitute an important group of
antiquities worth studying for their unit marks,
symbols, depictions, inscriptions and
ornaments. However, balance weights have been among the most neglected artefacts within archaeological research. Certainly, this
work at handbook level should not be expected to fill the gap entirely, but rather call attention to this
field. The examples were chosen from the city-states in the Aegean world and cover only those which bear
ethnic or symbol (parasemon).
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
Scope, material, and sources
History of research in the light of basic publications
1. AN OVERVIEW OF WEIGHTS
Form, material, and manufacture
Symbols (parasema) and other depictions
Denominations Ethnic State guarantee (Demosion)
2. WEIGHT SYSTEMS, STANDARDS AND SOLON’S REFORM
Weight systems
Standards and changes in the standards
Solon’s reform
3. MARKET PLACES AND MARKET CONTROLLERS
Agoras and their functions
Magistrates in charge of the
agora and the weights
4. CITIES AND THEIR WEIGHTS
Athens Corinth Olympia
Olynthos
Thasos Maroneia Ainos
Lysimachia Bisanthe
Byzantion Kalchedon
Kyzikos
Lampsakos Abydos
Ilion
Tenedos
Gentinos
Alexandria Troas Skepsis
Myrina Kyme
Smyrna Chios Kolophon
Ephesos Priene
Miletos Alabanda
Herakleia under Latmos
RhodosGENERAL EVALUATION
APPENDICES
Appendix 1: Balances, steelyards and steelyard weights
Appendix 2: Civic weights under the
Roman EmpireABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
IMAGE SOURCES
TECHNICAL
ABBREVIATIONSGLOSSARY
PLATES
Where to buy,
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