Trade Between Egypt and Western Asia: New Metrological Evidence (On E.W. Castle in Jesho Xxxv)

Heltzer, M.

doi:10.1163/156852094x00163

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“…For instance, Furtwängler's ingot of 7.25 g is based on what he calls a light Phoenician shekel. This should be related to the 7.4–7.6 g Egyptian shaty that was compatible with a shekel used in Late Bronze Age western Asia (Heltzer 1994). The 7.6 g ‘shekel’ turns up again, not likely as a coincidence, as a sub‐division of the 11.4 g Judaean shekel variously called pym or pim and associated with the Philistines (1 Sam.…”

Section: Mediterranean Silver Trade and Greek Silver Coinagementioning

confidence: 56%

Sealed Silver in Iron Age Cisjordan and the ‘Invention’ of Coinage

Thompson

2003

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary. Recent finds of hoarded silver in Cisjordan present new material for the consideration of the conceptual history of coined metals. When the fundamental concepts associated with coinage are abstracted from the various objects that express them, it is possible to see that a kind of coined metal existed in Cisjordan and other parts of the Near East prior to the traditional ‘invention’ of coinage by the Lydians and Greeks c.600 BC.1Both hoards and written sources indicate that seals affixed to precious metals at times qualified them in a numismatic sense by guaranteeing weights set to standards as well as controlled composition. What has been characterized as the ‘invention’ of coinage was rather an adaptation of these same principal concepts. The frequency and size of silver hoards from Cisjordan point to a proliferation in the ‘monetary’ use of silver in that region during the Iron Age and suggest a relationship to the overwhelming preference for silver coinages among the Greeks.

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Section: Mediterranean Silver Trade and Greek Silver Coinagementioning

confidence: 56%