Dear colleagues and students of Parthian Babylonia, Finally, after years of struggling, Irving Finkel and I decided that it is time to bring the "Bagayasha...
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dumitru adrian
ariobarzanesro
Jul 26, 2011 3:16 pm
Professor Van der Spek, may I ask if the peliganes appearing at B3 is a safe reading? Isn't there any doubt about it? Thank you, Adrian Dumitru ...
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Spek, R.J. van der
robartus1949
Jul 26, 2011 3:28 pm
Dear Mr. Dumitru, There is no doubt indeed. Unfortunately there is no context. The words before are difficult to explain. And the rest is broken. It is...
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dumitru adrian
ariobarzanesro
Jul 26, 2011 4:47 pm
Professor Van Der Spek, I would have expected adeiganes, for they are mentioned in Seleukeia ad Tigrim. Perhaps the proposed emmendatio to the Polybian text...
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Spek, R.J. van der
robartus1949
Jul 26, 2011 5:08 pm
Adeiganes was long recognized as a corruption. Peliganes is mentioned more often, so there is no doubt. See the commentary. One might consider that in this...
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Jens
egil4870
Aug 13, 2011 12:48 pm
Dear group, another observation based on Seleucid Coins II, which I am studying thoroughly. The book is a cornucopia for further Seleucid studies, especially...
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Spek, R.J. van der
robartus1949
Aug 21, 2011 4:05 pm
Dear colleagues, Recently I have opened a webpage at www.academia.edu<http://www.academia.edu> where you can follow my work. I uploaded a number of papers and...
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Jens
egil4870
Aug 28, 2011 1:03 pm
This is a most valuable resource for others interested in eastern Hellenistic history, just like the cuneiform tablets analysed on Lendering's www.livius.org...
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Lloyd
lloyd.taylor...
Sep 18, 2011 12:51 am
I draw discussion board members attention to this remarkable AV stater of Sophytes (Roma Numismatics Auction II Lot 366)...
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Jens
egil4870
Sep 20, 2011 8:03 am
Lloyd, I agree that the scar could well be an authentic faces trait, presented to depict Sophytes as the seasoned commander he very likely was. An interesting...
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Jens
egil4870
Sep 23, 2011 5:47 pm
Dear group, when I finished the last chapter of the English translation of my book, Alexanders Arvtagare <http://www.alexandersarvtagare.se/English1.html> ...
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Lloyd
lloyd.taylor...
Sep 24, 2011 1:29 am
Jens, Thanks for the comments. Significance and Limitations of Portraiture I agree that making character assessments and even interpretation of reign durations...
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Lloyd
lloyd.taylor...
Sep 24, 2011 2:56 am
Jens, A very interesting tidbit of which I was unaware. Thanks for the detailing the last of Seleucid line and its role in the final collapse. Rather than...
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Jens
egil4870
Sep 24, 2011 10:58 am
Lloyd, just a few closing comments. First of all, journals like that of the Oriental Numismatic Society (www.onsnumis.org) accept articles from amateurs (I was...
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Jens
egil4870
Oct 1, 2011 1:45 pm
Dear group, I recently posted about the early coins of Commagene: inofficial copies of coins of Demetrius I, which soon deteriorated into badly struck coins ...
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Cristian Emilian Ghita
ghitacristia...
Oct 2, 2011 10:19 am
Dear Jens, Given that striking coins is not a popular pastime, but rather strictly connected with the central authority and involves a surprisingly low number...
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Jens
egil4870
Oct 3, 2011 8:39 am
Dear Cristian, you are of course correct that the Cilician pirates were largely of local origin. Nevertheless, the piracy and the wars with the Romans that ...
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dumitru adrian
ariobarzanesro
Oct 4, 2011 1:27 am
Dear Jens, there are four coins I would like to throw in the pot. 1. I am not a numismatist - but it seems to me a matter of common sense to think that...
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Jens
egil4870
Oct 4, 2011 2:46 pm
Dear Adrian, 1. Actually, most of the coins of the earliest kings: Samos, Mithradates I and Antiochus I, seems to have been bronzes. But perhaps the small ...
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Jim Webster
f_j_p_webster
Oct 4, 2011 3:23 pm
Just a couple of thoughts. Coin seems to have been minted for various reasons, but making it easier for governments to pay troops and bureaucrats was one of...
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dumitru adrian
ariobarzanesro
Oct 5, 2011 11:06 pm
Dear Jens, thank you for the information provided. 2. I have never said that the Roman might have contributed one way or another to the building of...
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itzik3
Oct 13, 2011 10:10 pm
Note photo in photo file "JG" for reference. AE 24 mm (6 mm thick) 18.01g 12h. Appears to be similar obs. dies as SC 1648 but this example does not have...
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Chris Bennett
cjbennett00
Dec 4, 2011 11:27 pm
A couple of months ago I published “Alexandria and the Moon”, a monograph on the lunar Macedonian calendar, as Studia Hellenistica 52. Although it is...
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Iossif Panos
piossif
Jan 5, 2012 12:02 pm
Dear Frends and Colleagues, First of all, I would like to wish to all of you a Happy and Prosperous Year! I'm also happy to announce the publication of the...
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Iossif Panos
piossif
Jan 5, 2012 12:03 pm
Here is the attached file! ________________________________ De : Iossif Panos <piossif@...> À : "seleukids@yahoogroups.com"...
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seleukids@yahoogroups...
Jan 5, 2012 12:27 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the seleukids group. File : /More than...
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Jens
egil4870
Jan 19, 2012 8:40 pm
Dear group, this is another post in my comments on 'Seleucid Coins'. This encyclopaedia has enabled so many new ideas, and I maintain that it would be a good...
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Jens
egil4870
Jan 24, 2012 9:27 am
I am posting this on behalf of Nicholas Wright, whose account isn't working properly. /Jens Jakobsson Dear Jens and Group, I completely agree that there is...
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Lloyd
lloyd.taylor...
Jan 29, 2012 2:46 am
I recently had the good fortune to acquire this specific coin http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=44995 an example of Price P229 and SC 118. In Seleucid...
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AHA95@...
Jan 30, 2012 2:14 pm
Dear Lloyd. I am away from home, and therefore my books, for the next several days, otherwise I would be pleased to respond to some of the questions you...
