^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} Balance Weights in the Aegean World: Classical and Hellenistic Periods - 2016

x + 210 s, renkli resimler, sert kapak ciltli, İngilizce. Sınırlı sayıda (300 adet) basılmıştır. 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). 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 35 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 Rhodos GENERAL EVALUATION APPENDICES Appendix 1: Balances, steelyards and steelyard weights Appendix 2: Civic weights under the Roman Empire ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY IMAGE SOURCES TECHNICAL ABBREVIATIONS GLOSSARY PLATES