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Chapter XXVII: Appendix: C (3)

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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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