Chapter XXVII: Appendix: C (3)
Ox, fore part of, on coins of Samos, 313
⸺ in _Capitulare Saxonicum_, 34
⸺ name of coin, 4
⸺ on coins of Eretria, 313
⸺ value of, in Egypt, 146
Oxus, 204
Pactolus, 70, 206
Padi, 192
Paeonia, gold mines of, 74
Pahlavi texts, 148
Paille, 101
Palacrae, 101
Palae, 98, 101
Palestine, 269
Pallegoix, 161
Pangaeum, 71, 220
Panormus, 130, 289
Parkyns, Mansfield, 82
Parthenon, 310
Pauli, 89
Pausanias, 212
Pea, scarlet, 172
Peach, 78
Pecunia, 4, 376
Pegasus, 362
Pendeo, 358
Pening, 397
Penny, its cognates, derivation, 64; weight, 385
Pentacosiomedimni, 324
Pentonkion, 348
Pericles, 215
Perseus, 107
Persian Gulf, 27
⸺ silver standard, 261
⸺ standard, 300, 303
⸺ tribute, 129
⸺ wars, 220
⸺ weights, 179
Persians coin money in Egypt, 219
Pertz, 141
Peru, 193
Petrie, W. M. F., 216, 240, 241, 258
Phanes, 320
Pharaoh, 113
Pheidias, 211, 310
Pheidon, 211, 311
Pheidonian weights, 213
Philip II., 74, 341
Philippi, 74
Philippus stater, 140
φλjορι, 61
Phocaea, 205, 322
Phocaean standard, 210
Phocaeans, 62, 96, 110, 130, 132
Phoenicia, 86, 200
Phoenician inscription of Marseilles, 142
⸺ standard, 206, 261
⸺ ⸺ origin of, 286
⸺ system, 285
⸺ weights, 201
⸺ ⸺ from Jol, 288
Phoenicians, 117
Phtheirophagoi, 70
Picul, 263, 309
⸺ origin of, 174, 190
Pig, 25
Pindar, 170, 211
Pinginn, 33
Pipilika, 67
Plutarch, 135, 378
Po, 110
Pollex, 353
Polo, Marco, 14, 146
Polybius, 62, 139
Polygamy, 54
Pondus, 358
Poole, R. S., 271
Posidonius, 91, 97
Pottery, in shape of gourds, 258
Pound, English, 266
⸺ of 16 ounces, 18 ounces, 24 ounces, 360
⸺ of silk, 259
Powell, 20
Priam, 71
Propontis, 210
Ptolemaic coinage, 299
⸺ standard, 338
⸺ stater, 279
Pump, Egyptian, 99
Pylus, 214
Pyrenees, 99
Pytheas, 257
⸺ his voyage, 83
Qesitah, 270
Quadrans, 348, 352
Quadrigae, 377
Queen Charlotte Islands, 17
Queensland blacks, 152
Queipo, 179, 200
Quills of gold, 17
Quincunx, symbol of, 369
Rakat, 172
Rameses II., 128
Ratti, 127, 176, 186
Red Sea, 76
Regenbogenschüsseln, 140
Reindeer, 4
Relation of gold to silver, to copper, 135
Rhegium, 336
Rhinoceros, horn of, 25
Rhoda, 290, 322
Rhodes, 132, 322, 339
Rhodian standard, 338, 339
Rhys Davids, 29
Rice, 178
⸺ bag of, 162, 172
⸺ grains, 187
Rig Veda, 25, 59, 122, 257
Ring money, 35, 394
Rings, Egyptian, 242
⸺ gold, 34, 128
⸺ ⸺ of Egypt, 129
⸺ in Homer, 36
⸺ Mycenaean, 36
⸺ of tin, 44
Road, sacred, 111, 216
Robes, in Homer, 49
Roman coins of Campania, 216
⸺ foot, 359
⸺ (later) weights, 181
⸺ pound, 234
⸺ system, 374
Romans, use of weights by, 121
Rose, 320
Rotl, 46
Royal standards, 250
Rubat, 45
Ruding, 180
Rupee, 4
⸺ purchasing power of, 152
Rye, 34
Saggio, 23, 146
Salamis, 142, 272
Salassi, 89
Sallet (von), 317
Sallust, 110
Salt, 45
Samhaisc, 33
Samos, 222
Samoyedes, 3
Sapec, 24, 157
Sarah, 113
Sardes, 206
Sassanide kings, 151
Saxon coins, 321
Sayce, 202
Scales of silver, 193
⸺ used, 226
Scandinavian currency, 34
Scapte Hyle, 73
Schliemann, 129, 231
Schoenus, 365
Schrader, 60, 69, 70, 92
Scillinga, 39
Sciron, 331
Screapall, 33
Scriptulum, 351
Scripulum, 135
Scrupulus, 352
Scythians, 67
⸺ use gold, but not copper, 69
Seal, 322
Sedâcy, 44
Seebohm, F., 404
Sembella, 379
Semis, 369
Sequani, 332
Servius, 376
Sestertius, 363, 379
Sexagesimal system, 198
Sextantal as, 362
Sextans, 348
Sextula, 351, 384
Shakespeare, 349
Shayast, 150
Sheep, 33, 324, 370, 374
⸺ as coin type, 272
⸺ as unit, 272
⸺ weights, 271
Shekel, 35
⸺ as unit of Hebrew system, 273
⸺ earlier than mina, 246
⸺ heavy, 259
⸺ light, heavy, 201
⸺ of Sanctuary, 273
Shekels, 269
Shell money, 14
Shells of silver, 22
Shield, 331, 334
⸺ in Homer, 331
Shilling, 37
Siamese bullet-money, 28
⸺ coins, 161
Sicanians, 347
Sicels, 347
Sicilian gold unit, 131
⸺ silver coinage, 359
⸺ system, 346
⸺ talent, 131, 137, 304, 359
Sicilicus, 368
Sicily, 31
Siculo-Punic coins, 289
Sicyonian shield, 334
Sidonians, 117
Sierra Leone, 39
Siglos, 261
Silenus, 323
Siliqua, 182
Silphiomachos, 326
Silphium, 314, 325
⸺ on coins of Cyrene, 50
Silver, 57
⸺ at Rome, 139, 373
⸺ coinage, Roman, 362
⸺ coins, origin of Greek, 315
⸺ discovery of, 98, 100
⸺ found in Cilicia, 146
⸺ furnaces for, 98
⸺ in Cilicia, 286
⸺ in Gaul, 93
⸺ in Greece, 310
⸺ in Palestine, 147
⸺ not weighed in Homer, 117
⸺ relation to bronze, 380
⸺ scarce in Egypt, 146
⸺ standard, 260
⸺ standards, table, 209
⸺ ⸺ variation of, 337
⸺ value of, 146
Silverlings, 269
Silvestre, 157
Sipylus, 71
Six, M., 321
Sjögren, 70
Slave-boy, 326
Slave, foreign, more valuable, 55
⸺ Hebrew, value of, 148
⸺ in Homer, 30
Slaves, 11, 323
⸺ constancy of price, 54
⸺ in Congo, 42
⸺ in Darfour, 46
⸺ in Wales, 32
⸺ male, female, 54
Soanes, 70
Solidus, 33, 181, 384
Solomon, 147
Solon’s coinage, 306, 324
⸺ standard, 306
Sophocles, 204
Sophron, 364
Sophytes, 127
Soteria, 327
Soudan, 312
Soul, weighing of, 150
Soumyt, 46
Soutzo, M., 134, 203, 347, 368, 380
⸺ view of relation between the metals, 136
Spain, mines of, 96, 97
Spata, 84
Spear-brooch, 36
Spices weighed, 276
Spirals, 36
⸺ Keltic, 38
⸺ Scandinavian, 37
Squirrel skin as unit, 4
Stater, use of, 308
Sterlings, 225
Stiver, 186
Stockfish, 18, 316
Strabo, 71, 97
String of cash, 24
Sumatra, 172
Sun’s diameter, 203
Suvarṇa, 127, 178
Svoronos, 314
Swine, 378
⸺ with Gauls, 333
Symbol as mark of worth, 324
Syracusan standard, 362
Syracuse, coinage of, 225
Szins, 25
Taberdier, 158
Tacoe, 186
Tael, 158
Taku, 186
Talanton, 228, 304
Talent, 244
⸺ Homeric, 2 seqq.
⸺ Macedonian, 125, 304
⸺ origin of, 262
⸺ Sicilian, 304
Tantalus, 71
Tapaks, 167
Taras, 364
Tarbelli, 92
Tarentum, 364
Tarneih, 44
Tarshish, 97
Tartessus, 96, 97
Taurisci, 87, 339
Tax, hut, 25
Tea as money, 23
Teanum, 369
Tectosages, 90
Temples as banks, 215
Tenedos, 318
Teos, 210, 340
Testudo, 329
Tetl, 192
Tetras, 348
Teutonic peoples, 34
Thasos, 220, 323, 344
⸺ mines of, 73
Thebes, 334
Theocritus, 137
Theseus, 331
Thomas, 176
Thothmes III., 128
Thracian coinage, 342
Thracians, 340
Thucydides, 72, 211
Thumb, 353
Thurii, 322
Tibetan currency, 23
Tical, 29
Timaeus, 51, 379
Time, measurement of, 198
Timoleon, 225, 289
Tin, 97, 173
⸺ Cornish, 83
⸺ discovery of, in Sumatra, 100
⸺ coins, 225
⸺ rings of, 44
Tiryns, 84, 231
Tjams, 24
Tmolus, 70
Tobacco, 45
Tola, 177
Tolosa, 90
Tomme, 353
Torres Straits, 105
Tortoise, 313, 333
⸺ Island, 331
⸺ (sea), 215
⸺ shell, 328
⸺ ⸺ currency, 21
⸺ ⸺ masks, 105
Tortoises of terra cotta, 329
⸺ of wood, 330
⸺ ⸺ and earthenware, 330
Toukkiyeh, 44
Trade routes, 105
Tremissis, 385
Trias, 348
Trichalcum, 346
Triens, 348
Tripods, 314
Troy grain, origin of, 181; of ounce, 386
Tschudi, 70
Tunny coins of Olbia, 317
⸺ fish, 315
⸺ ⸺ Cyzicus, 50
⸺ ⸺ Olbia, 50
Turdetani, 97
Turkey rhubarb, 83
Turti, 97
Types parlants, 322
Tyre, 200
⸺ fall of, 141
Tylor, 229
Umbrians, 64
Uncia, derivation of, 353
⸺ Roman, 359
Unga, 33
Unguis, 354
Ur, 197
Ural-Altaic range, 204
⸺ region, 68
Uten, 203, 238
Varro, 375, 378
Venusia, 369
Victoriatus, 377
Victumulae, mines of, 88
Vieh, 4
Vines, distance apart, 366
Vomis, 354
Vulci, 354
Wadai, 44
Wade, Sir T., 158
Wai wai, 105
Wales, 31
Wall paintings, 128
Walrus hide, 47
Wampum, 14
Weapons, 35
Weighing of the soul, 150
Weight, its origin, 12
⸺ of potatoes, 358
⸺ unit, how fixed, 168
Weights, false, 241
⸺ in connection with currency, 271
⸺ in form of animals, 153, 401
⸺ ⸺ oxen, 128
⸺ in shape of cows, 243
Weissenborn, 212
Welsh currency, 32
West, E. W., 148
Whale’s teeth, 21
Wheat, 122
⸺ corn, 179
⸺ corn in Assyria, 183
⸺ corns, 180
⸺ ear, 327
⸺ grain, 182
Wheaten straw, 109
Wicklow, gold in, 334
Wife, payment for, 44
⸺ price of, 44, 105
Wilamowitz, 306
Wine, 323
⸺ cup, 323
⸺ jar, 323
⸺ trade, of Carthage, of Gauls, 326
Wolf, 335
Wood as currency, 42
Woodpeckers’ scalps, 15
Wool merchants, 117
⸺ weighed in Homer, 118
⸺ weighing of, 116
Xenophanes, 205, 293
Xenophon, 337
⸺ _De Vectigalibus_, 338
Yard, English imperial, 266
⸺ of butter, 358
⸺ of land, 358
Zancle, 348
Zechariah, 148
Zend Avesta, 149
⸺ physicians’ fees, 26
Zulus, 2, 42
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