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Making money out of making money in ancient Athens

Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 238-246, February 2024.
Abstract The observed weights of ancient coins are usually less than the nominal “ideal” weights of the coin standards to which they belong because state authorities took a fee—“seigniorage”—for minting coins to cover costs and to make a profit. The basis for calculating the amount taken by the state and the way it administered manufacture are not well
Gillan Davis, Francis Albarède
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Ludlul bēl nēmeqi in Ashurbanipal’s Library

Kaskal
This paper investigates the manuscripts of Ludlul bēl nēmeqi from Ashurbanipal’s Library. It concludes that five types of tablets were included in the royal tablet collections, with at least three tablet sets marked with Ashurbanipal colophons ...
Hätinen, Aino
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Typological Aspects of Scholarly Tablets in the Library of Ashurbanipal

Kaskal
The Library of Ashurbanipal is an archetype of standardisation in cuneiform. It has been seen as a collection of compositions whose text took the form of fixed, canonical versions on which modern reconstructions can best rely.
Schnitzlein, Babette, Taylor, Jon
doaj   +1 more source

Blank Forms for Future Applications

Critical Quarterly, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 57-89, October 2025.
Ruth Abbott, Chloe Steele
wiley   +1 more source

COLOPHON

Journal of China and International Relations, 2013
Colophon - Journal of China and International ...
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How many medieval and early modern manuscripts were copied by female scribes? A bibliometric analysis based on colophons

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
A monk at his desk, copying a manuscript, is a typical image associated with the Middle Ages, but what about the women? According to a recent estimate more than 10 million hand-written manuscripts were produced in the Latin West (the Roman Catholic part ...
Åslaug Ommundsen, Aidan Keally Conti, Øystein Ariansen Haaland, Bodil Holst   +3 more
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From Nan to Luang Prabang: The Buddhist Heritage of Northern Laos as Reflected in Recently Discovered Manuscript Collections

Journal of International Buddhist Studies, 2019
Luang Prabang and Nan can look upon a glorious past as most eminent Buddhist kingdoms. During the first half of the nineteenth century both kingdom were important centres of manuscript production.
Volker Grabowsky
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The Hand with the Pen: Martin of Loka, Matjaž Jurčič of Kapela and Herman Talner of Trebnje and their Colophons

Ars & Humanitas, 2014
Beginning with expressions such as ideographs, the author’s autograph, and the copyist’s autograph, this paper explains the dilemma of some Late Medieval Manuscripts in Slovenian collections that were mistakenly identified as being the author’s own ...
Nataša Golob
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Colophon

Rigakuryoho Kagaku
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‘Weaving Together Loose Threads’

Kaskal
This article provides an overview of the development of the therapeutic text corpus in the Ashurbanipal Library. It explores the editorial steps taken to produce new standard editions of the therapeutic texts for the Library through a systematic ...
Simkó, Krisztián
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