Henri Seyrig’s Scientific Archives: A new look at the weights from Seleucid Syria and Phoenicia

Doyen, Charles
(2023) Shopping and Weighing Instruments in the Mediterranean World and Beyond throughout History — Location: Antalya (27.November.2023)

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Over the last decade, the emergence of numerous weights on the Antiquities market, along with the comprehensive utilization of Henri Seyrig's archives preserved at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, has significantly expanded the corpus of Seleucid weights. This paper aims to provide a complete reevaluation of this corpus, with a specific focus on distinguishing between civic and royal weights, the types of metals used, denominations, and the names and symbols of the agoranomoi. Building on Finkielsztejn's seminal papers from 2014 and 2015, we will present a regional study of the weight systems documented in Syria (including Antioch, Seleucia, and Laodicea) and in Phoenicia (covering Arados, Marathos, Byblos, Berytos, and Tyre).
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Doyen, C. (2023). Henri Seyrig’s Scientific Archives: A new look at the weights from Seleucid Syria and Phoenicia. Shopping and Weighing Instruments in the Mediterranean World and Beyond throughout History, Antalya. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/30261