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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part I History Literature &c. 1881

1881

The finders quarrelled about the division of the spoil and several of the larger objects were cut to pieces for the sake of a ready settlement of accounts on the spot. [...] According to some the sardpis was a striped tunic of crimson and white purpureco tunic medium album intextum.t But judging from the coloured dress of Darius in the Pompeian Mosaic and from the dress of the golden statuette horseman in Lord Lytton's possession the main part of the tunic was of scarlet with a broad band of white down the front and narrow bands along the edges of the sleeves and [...] Now this was also the Assyrian talent as we learn from the weights of the lions and ducks preserved in the British Museum which give an Assyrian mina of 15 368 grains and a Babylonian mina of 7 747 grains or just one half of the other.' The same difference is still preserved at the present day as the man of Shiraz and Bagdad is just double that of Tabrez and Bushir the average of the former [...] In Greece owing to the successful working of the gold mines in Thrace the rate was only 10 to 1 while in Persia it was 13 to 1. That this value of 13 to 1 was not a fluctuating rate is proved by the fact that Sim the Persian word for silver has also the meaning of one thirteenth." I believe therefore that the weight of the siglos was to that of the Attic drachma exactly in the ratio of 13 to [...] At the present day the three smaller weights of the Persian system are the Delnik or Dang the Mishkin and the Darns or Diram which I would identify with the Danak the siglos and the Dracma of ancient writers.
history
Pages
109
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
Segment Pages Author Actions
Relies from Ancient Persia in Gold Silver and Copper—By Major General A. Cunningham C.S.I.C.I.E. Director General Archaulogical Survey
151-186 The Natural History Secretary view
Contribution on the Religion History &C. of Tibe—By Baboo Sarat Chandra Dás Deputy Inspector of School Darjiling
187-251 The Natural History Secretary view
Backmatter
i-viii The Natural History Secretary view

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