INDEX.

Abdera, 340
Abraham, 112, 113, 197
Abrus, 172
Absalom’s hair, 120, 275
Abyssinian gold in beads, 82
Actus, 365
Aegina, 211, 328
Aeginetan measures, 306
— obol, 366
— standard, 9, 21, 311
— — its origin, 217
— — used for copper, 345
— system, 307
Aelian, 144
Aes, 86
Aes grave, 378
Aes rude, 355, 376
Agariste, 212
Agathocles, 138
Agerept, 150
Agonistic types, 337
Agrigentum, 347, 350
Aicill, Book of, 353
Airgid, 63
Alalia, 130
Alamanni, 140
Alaska, 47
Alexander, 29, 198, 342
Alexandrine talent, 244
Alfred’s penny, 180
Al-li-ko-chik, 15
Alphabet, the, 227
Alps, gold of, 88
Altun (= gold), 70
Alyattes, 71
Amber, 227
— beads, 46
— golden, 110; red, 110
Anaxilas, 336
Angala, 354
Annals of Four Masters, 31
Annam, 23
— barter system of, 164
Ant coins, 22
Ants, gold-digging, 66
Apis, worship of, 50
Apollo, 107
Apulia, 370
Aquileia, 87
Arab weights, 179, 182
Arabia, gold of, 75
Archimedes, 36, 100
Argippaei, 68
Argos, 215, 335
Arimaspians, 66, 68
Aristaeus, 314
Aristeas, 108
Aristotle, 96, 106, 131, 138, 213, 318, 323, 336
— Polity of Athenians, 305
Armlets, 42
Arpi, 367
Arrows, 24, 43
Arrugia, 101
Artabri, 97
Arverni, 90
As, 350
— derivation of, 353
— divisions, 351
— land measure, 351
— linear measure, 351
— of empire, 362
— reduction of, 380
— sextantal, 362
— symbol of, 369
— used only of bronze, 351
As libralis, 135
Assam coinage, 177
Asser, 354
Asses, sacrifice of, 107
Assis, 354
Assurbanipal, 201
Assyrian weights, 183, 199, 249
Astronomy, 199
Asturia, 101
Astyra, 71
Aternian law, 134
Athene, statue of, 211, 220
Athenian coinage, 124, 306, 372
Athens, Polity of, 214, 305
Attic choenix, 214
— didrachm, 5
Aulus Gellius, 135
Aura (old Norse), 63
Aurès, 183, 254
Aurum, 87
Ausum (aurum), 61
Axe, 318
Axes, Tenedos, 50
— West African, 40
Aymonier, 23, 161
Aztec money, 192
— numerals, 192
Aztecs, 17, 59
Babylonian metric system, 251
— standard, 78, 163, 206, 261, 387
— system, 197
Bactria, coins of, 126
Baetis, 97
Bag of rice, 162
Bahnars, 23
Ball, V., 68
Balux, 101
Bamboo-joint, 163, 171
Bar, 39, 158
— (Assyrian), 185, 285
— of silver, 25
Barley, 178
Barleycorn, 177, 179
— = Troy grain, 181
Barrel, 115, 175
Bars, 371
Barter, age of, 11, 114, 196
Bassak, 161
Baug-brotha, 37
Baugr, 37
Beaver, 314
— skin, 12, 153, 323
Beag, 37
Bear skins, 16
Bee, 320
Bekah, 277
Belgic tribes, 94
Bells, 43
Bereniceum, 297
Bermion, 71
Bes, 351
Betzer, 36
Bhascara, 177
Bigae, 377
Bigati, 377
Bimetallism, 338
Bisaltae, 340
Blanket currency, 17
Bo, 33
Boar, 332
Boeckh, 1, 238, 365
Boeotia, 77
Boeotian shield, 331
Bonny River, 40
Boroimhe, 32
Bortolotti, 241
Bosman, 185
βοῦς ἐπὶ γλώσσῃ, 8
Boyd Dawkins, 110
Bracelets, 35
Brahmegupta, 177
Brandis, 129, 195, 294
Brandy, 323
Brass rods, 41
Brassey, Lady, 330
Britain, gold coins, 93
‘Britons’’ money-system, 179
Bronze in Italy, 368
— in Northern Europe, 86
Brugsch, 122, 195, 196
Buffalo, 24, 164
— value of, 154
— worth a stick of gold, 168
Buffaloes, 25
Bull, 322
— on coins, 321
Bull’s-head weight, 282
Burgundians, 141
Bushel, 115
— how fixed, 191
Cacao seeds, 17, 193
Cadmus, 71, 227
Caesar, 179
Calculus, 192
Caldron, 25
Caldrons, Irish, 32
Caldwell, W. H., 152
Calf, 374
Calves’ heads, 322
Camarina, 347
Cambodia, 25, 160
Cambridge, 182
Camirus, 339
Campania, 216
Candarin, 158
Cappadocae, 78
Carchemish, 202
Carmania, gold in, 74
Carob, 181
Carthage, 288
Carthaginian coinage, 131, 289
— gold unit, 130
— trade in gold with West Coast of Africa, 83
Cartload, 175
Cash, 157
Cat’s eyes, 21, 27
Cattle at Rome, 31
— chief wealth of Britons, Gauls, Italians, etc., 51
— in Avesta, 27
Catty, origin of, 162, 174
Cauer, 365
Cayley, Prof., 231
Centupondium, 136, 360
Centussis, 370
Ceramus, 82
Chabas, M., 239
Chabinus, 76
Chalci, 346
Chalcis, 227, 361
Χαλκός, 86
Chariot of Hera, 116
Chariots in Veda, 26
Charlemagne, 34
Charutz, 60
Chautard, 225
Chauter, 45
Chinese coinage, 10
— shell-money, 21
— weight-system, 156
Chios, 322, 343
Chisholme, 199
Χρυσός, 60
Chrysûs, 277
Cicero, 134
Cilicia, silver of, 286
Cloth, 35
— silken, 22
Cnidus, 321, 322
Cocoanut, 162, 171
Coinage, invention of, 203
— of gold, 125
— of silver at Rome, 136
Coins, early Lydian, 293
— normal weight of, 218
Coin-standards, 210
Colaeus, 62, 96
Colchis, 70
Colebrooke, 176
Colpach, 33
Commercial weights, 344
Comparetti, 314
Compensation for wounds, 30
Concha, 328
Conchylion, 329
Constantine, 384
Constantine’s solidus, 181
Conti, Nicolo, 27
Convention, 47
Coomb, 115
Copper coins in Greece, 361
— — in Britain, 94
— in Greece, 312
— in Meroe, 78
— in relation to gold, 77
— native, 58
— of Haidas, 17
— rings, 22
— standards, 348
— wire, Calabar, 40
Corcyraean wine jars, 106
Corinthian standard, 362
— system, 311
Corn sold by measure, 115
Cotton as money, 45
Counters, 192, 228
Coventry tokens, 336
Cow, 2 seqq., 370
— among Ossetes, 30
— at Delos, 5
— at Syracuse, 31
— equal centumpondium, 360
— Hebrew, value of, 148
— in Avesta, 26
— in Rig Veda, 25
— in Scandinavia, 35
— in Welsh Laws, 32
— names for, Sanskrit, Zend, etc., 51
— on coins of Eretria, 5
— suckling calf, 321
— unit of assessment at Rome and Syracuse, 393
— value of, in Gaul and Germany, 140
— — in Greece, Italy, 133
— — at Rome, 135
— — in Scandinavia, 141
— — in Sicily, 137
— — Persian, 151
— — Phoenician, 143
— — (Table), 153
— — the same over wide area, 52
Cowell, Prof., 176
Cowries, 13, 177
— as counters, 229
Cows among Madis, 43
— in Darfour, 44
Crab’s claw, 350
Crab’s eyes, 186
Crawfurd, John, 170
Crenides, 74, 341
Croesus, 204, 297
Crosoch, 36; crosóg, 396
Croton, 328
Cubit, royal, 265
Cucurbita, 258
Cumhal, 33
Cunningham, 55, 117, 127
Curtius, E., 201, 212
Cuttle-fish, 327
Cyathus, 258
Cyrene, 326
Cyzicene staters, 342
Cyzicenes, 301
Cyzicus, 316, 342
Damba, 186
Damleg, 45
Danes, 321
Danube, 106
— flows into Adriatic, 107
— source of, 107
Dapper, 43
Darfour, 44
Daric, 126, 277, 297
— as talent, 6
— derivation of, 300
— = Homeric talent, 7
Datum, gold mines, 74
Debae, 75
Decalitron, 362
Decimal system, 203, 228, 371
— — in Homer, 308
Decussis, 356, 369, 370
Deecke, 130
Degradation, 226
— of coin weights, 223
— of weight, 338
Delian priests, 108
Delphium, 106
Delos, 215
Demareteion, 297
Demeter, 327
Denarius, 357, 363
Deunx, 351
Dewarra, 20
Dextans, symbol of, 369
Dhalac, 330
Digitus, 353
Dinar, 63
Diodorus, 81
Dionysius, 31, 225
— of Halicarnassus, 134
— of Syracuse, 224
Dioscuri, 377
Dirham, 148, 182
Dodona, 215
Dodrans, 351
Dogs, 94
Dollar, Maria Theresa, in Soudan, 56
— Mexican, 24; Spanish, 44
Double Unit, 267
Doukha, 45
Drachm at Athens, 324
— Corinthian, 311
— origin of, 214, 310
Draco, 5
Dragon’s eye, 22
Dublin, 321
Duck weight, 83
— — suggested origin, 247
Duck weights, 199, 245
Dungi, 248
Duodecimal system, 371
Dupondius, 376
Dyer, Dr Thiselton, 186
Dyrrachium, 322
Earring, 35
Ebusus, coinage of, 290
Echinus, 328
Egypt, coinage of, 219
— gold in, 78
Egyptian gold-mines, described by Diodorus, 79
— measures, 122
— Monad, 129
— records, 236
— weights, 122
Egyptian weight system, 237
Electrum, 98, 204, 290
— at Carthage, 289
— Lydian, 70, 294
— why coined, 207
Elephant, price of, 24
Elephant’s tusk, 25
Ellis, 187
Emporiae, 290
English coinage, 224
— Imperial weights and measures, 266
— penny, 225
— weights, 186
Ephorus, 211
Epicharmus, 137, 364
Eretria, 322
Erman, 146, 242
Erythia, 110
Eryx, 144
Esterlings, 225
Etruria, 374
Etruscan gold coins, 130
— gold unit, 359
— silver, 363
— standard, 130
Etruscans, 64
Etymology, danger of, 65
Euboic-Attic system, 311
Euboic standard, 9, 210
— — origin of, 222
Eustathius, 125
Evans, A. J., 271, 365, 366
— Dr J., 94
Exagion, 183
Ezekiel, 121, 282
Falgo, 45
Fanam, 173
Fee, 4, 34
Felkin, 43, 263
Fen Ditton, 182
Fertyt tribe, 46
Festus, 134
Fetiches, 187
Fibulae, 41
Fifteen-stater standard, 286
Fiji, 21
Fines, 135
Fiorino, 385
Fish-hooks, 28
Florin, 385
Foot, Roman, 359
Foucart, 219
Fractions, 357
Frankincense, 6
Frazer, J. G., 30, 320
French metric system, 1
Fuel sold by bulk, 115
Gades, coinage of, 290
Gaius, 8, 376
Galetly, A., 30
Gallaecia, 101
Gardner, Dr, 126, 342
— P., 222, 313, 364
Gaul, 325
Gaulish gold unit, 131
Gauls, 332
— in Italy, 61
— value of cow with, 140
Gaus, 51
Gelon, 142
Gerah, 277
Germans, 131
Geryon, 110
Gill, 23, 296
Gold, 57 seqq.
— alone weighed in Homer, 117
— among Salassi, 89
— at Vercellae, 88
— bat, 163
— Coast, 105
— coinage, 372
— coinage, Athens, 124; Macedon, 125; Thasos, 125; Cyzicus, 125
— coinage, Roman, 362
— coins, Athens, 372
— distribution of, 65
— equal distribution of, 114
— first coinage at Rome, 378
— first of all articles weighed, 114
— from India, 257
— in Bactria, 67
— in California, 58
— in China, 22
— in Gaul, 90
— in Meroe, 78
— in Noricum, 87
— in quills, 17, 186, 192
— in Rig Veda, 25
— in rings from Sennaar, 82
— in Swiss lake-dwellings, 85
— in Thibet, 66
— in Wales, 94
— measured, 168
— measured by quills, 186
— mining, methods of, 101
— not weighed, 187
— nuggets of, 75
— of Tolosa, 92
— ornaments of Gauls, 92
— Irish, 402
— placer, 98
— poured into jars, 259
— relation of, to silver in Etruria, 140
— relation of, to silver and copper in Italy, 139
— relative value, and silver, 75
— scarce in Greece, 221
— standard, 211
— Talent of, 3
— unit, the same everywhere, 133
— unit of Attopoeu, 163
— units, table of, 132
— Ural-Altai, 67
— wedge of, 270
— weighed in Veda, 122
— weighing, 167, 172
— white, 97
Golden Bough, 320
—Fleece, legend of, 70
Goliath, 120
Gortyn, 314
Gourds, 43, 258
Greek (old) standard, 306
— standard (table), 310
— system, 304
— weights, 181
Griffins, 68, 70
Guadalquivir, 97
Gunjá, 176, 178
Gygadas, 206
Gyges, 71, 201, 204, 293
Hachâchah, 45
Haddon, 105
Hair weighed, 275
Hakon the Good, 34
Haliartus, 334
Hamilcar, 289
Handfuls of rice, 170
Hanno, voyage of, 83
Hare, 336
— hunting of, 337
Hares at Carpathus, 337
Hare-skin, 13
Harich, 45
Harpoon, 105
Harris papyrus, 239
Hasdrubal, 289
Haxthausen, 4
Head, 130, 138, 196, 314, 316
Hebrew system, 269
— system, tables, 283
Hectae, 342
Hectare, 1
Helbig, 36, 84
Helix, 36
Helvetii, 90
Heraclea, 365
Herakles, 107, 227
— road of, 111
Hercynian forests, 106
Herodotus, 107, 258, 260
Herondas, 342
Hexâs, 348
Hide (of land), 391
Hides, 51
— as money, 332
Hierapolis, 202
Himera, 142, 347
Hindu weights, 177
Hiranya-pindas, 26, 258
Hissarlik, 73
Hittites, 202
Hoe money, China, Annam, 22
Hoes, 45, 165, 312, 371
Hoffmann, 36
Homeric Greeks, analogy of, to modern barbarians, 50
— Poems, 2
— Trial Scene, 8, 389
Honey, 34, 122
Horapollo, 129
Horse, value of, 147
Hottentots, 42
Hucher, 131
Hultsch, 95, 129, 202
Hyksos, 50
Hyperborean maidens, 109
Hyperboreans, 107
Hyperoché, 109
Ialysus, 339
Iceland, 18
Icelandic proclamation, 18
Illyria, 378
Incas, weight, 193
Incuse on coins of Magna Graecia, 334
— square, 333
India, mediaeval, 27
Indian weight standards, 176
Ireland, gold in, 95
Irish currency, early, 31
— weights, 180, 401
Iron in Homer, 117
— ingots, 25, 163
— money, 373
— needles of, 27
— plates, 43
— rings, 40
Issedones, 68
Istir, 148
Istropolis, 107
Italian system, 350
Ivory tusks, 42
Jade, 48, 105
Janiform head, 318
Japanese Bean money, 295
Jars in Annam, 24
Jersey torque, 405
Job, 35
Jol, 288
Jones, Quayle, 186
Jordan, 112
Josephus, 277
Jugerum, 358
Juno Moneta, 215
Kaibel, 306
Karnak, 239
Kat, 238
Keller, Dr, 85
Kelts, 31
— their early knowledge of gold, 104
Kenrick, 143
Kenyon, 306
Keseph, 270
Kesitah, 270
Kettle, 31
Kettles, 24
Kid, 33
Kikkar, 264, 279, 309
King’s weight, 275
Klaproth, 69
Knife money, 156
Knives, 312
Koehler, 219, 317
Kolben, 43
Lacedaemonian shield, 334
Lachish, 258
Lady Godiva, 336
Lais, 330
Lake dwellings, 84
Lamb, 271
Laodicé, 109
Laos, weight system of, 161
Larins, 28
Lassen, 66
Lateres, 375
Latham, R. G., 57
Laurium, 99
— mines of, 59
Layard, Sir A. H., 85
Leake, Col., 313
Lebetes, 314
Lehmann, 195
Leinster, king of, 32
Lelantum, 222
Lemnos, 323
Lenormant, 129, 242
Leocedes, 212
Lex Flaminia, 378
— Tarpeia, 31
Libella, 357, 374
Libra, 347, 358
Lindus, 339
Linguistic Palaeontology, 60
Lingurium, Greek derivation of, 110
Lion and Bull, 296
— on coins, 321
— weights, 199, 245
Litra, 347
— its subdivisions, 348
— silver, 361
— translation of libra, 360
Litre, 1
L. M. R., 330
Load, 173, 263
— as unit, 172
— Greek, 309
Lupinus, 278
Lusitania, 97
Lycia, 332
Lydia, 201
Lydian coinage, 299
— coins, 321
— electrum, 296
— system, 293
Lynx, 110
Lyre, 329
Lysias, 301, 324
Macedonian standard, 346
— talent, 125, 304
Machpelah, 246
Madagascar, 187
Madden, 240
Madi tribe, 43, 263
Maine, Sir H. S., 8
Maize, grain of, 166
Makrizi, 182
Malay weights, 171
Malays, 309
Manā of gold, 26, 122
Mancipatio, 121, 358, 376
Mancus (of silver), 34
Maneh, its origin, 256
Mansous, 46
Manu, 177
Maris, 203
Mark, 358, 397
Marquardt, 181
Marsden, W., 172
Marseilles, inscription at, 142
Massilia, 62
— court of, 111
Mathematical hangmen, 231
Measure of corn or oil, 324
Medbh, 36
Medimnus, 324
Melitaea, 323
Melkarth, 227
Men, 327
Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, 247
Meinnan, 33
Mentores, 106
Mermnadae, 205
Meroe, gold, copper, iron in, 78
Mesha, 272
Mesopotamia, cattle in, 50
Messana, 336
Metals, first objects to be weighed, 114
— relations of, in Greece, 219
— their discovery, 57
Metapontum, 319, 327
Metre, 1
Metric systems, 198
Midas, 71
Miletus, 205, 210, 226, 296
Milk of cow, 33
— of goat, 33
— of sheep, 33
Millies, 157
Mill-sail incuse, 334
Mina, Greek, 309
— Hebrew, 274
— in Ezekiel, 284
— origin of, 258
— use of, 309
Mines of Spain, 97
Mithkal, 183
Moda, 46
Modius, 121
Moeun, 162
Mohurs, 35
Moïs, 24
Mommsen, 88, 134, 205, 348, 364, 380
Money, development of, 48
Monro, D. B., 226
Moriae, 324
Moschos, 137
Moura, 160, 175
Movers, 143
Muk, in Annam, 24
Murex, 330
Mycenae, 72
— rings at, 77
Mytilene, 322
Naaman, 280
Nails, 159, 312
Naucratis, 241
Naxos, 348
Nehemiah, 280
Nejd, 29
Nero, 378
New Britain, 20
New Carthage, 289
— — mines of, 99
Niebuhr, 135
Nile, source of, 107
— water, 242
Nineveh, 85
Nissen, 195, 239
Nomads, 75
Nomisma, 366
Nomos, 369
— bronze, 367
— of Heraclea, 364
— Sicilian, 364
Noummos of Tarentum, 364
Nub (gold), 60
— its derivation, 78
Nubia, 78
Numerals on coins, 130, 363
Nummus, 131, 137
Numus, 364
Oats, 34
Ob, 349
Obol, 346
— Attic, Aeginetic, 346
— copper coin, 361
— its subdivisions, 349
— origin of, 310
Oenone, 211
Olbia, 67, 316
Olive trees, 365
Olives, 324
Olympic victor, 324
Oncia, 348
Onesicritus, 74
Onions, 45
Oppert, 183
Oppian Law, 139
Or (gold in Irish), 61
Orang Glaï, 25
Orchomenus, 72
Ordlach, 353
Öre, 397
Ornan’s threshing-floor, 148
Örtug, 397
Ossetes, 4, 30
Ostiaks, 4
Ostracism, 329
Ostrakon, 329
Owls, 225
Ox, fore part of, on coins of Samos, 313
— in Capitulare Saxonicum, 34
— name of coin, 4
— on coins of Eretria, 313
— value of, in Egypt, 146
Oxus, 204
Pactolus, 70, 206
Padi, 192
Paeonia, gold mines of, 74
Pahlavi texts, 148
Paille, 101
Palacrae, 101
Palae, 98, 101
Palestine, 269
Pallegoix, 161
Pangaeum, 71, 220
Panormus, 130, 289
Parkyns, Mansfield, 82
Parthenon, 310
Pauli, 89
Pausanias, 212
Pea, scarlet, 172
Peach, 78
Pecunia, 4, 376
Pegasus, 362
Pendeo, 358
Pening, 397
Penny, its cognates, derivation, 64; weight, 385
Pentacosiomedimni, 324
Pentonkion, 348
Pericles, 215
Perseus, 107
Persian Gulf, 27
— silver standard, 261
— standard, 300, 303
— tribute, 129
— wars, 220
— weights, 179
Persians coin money in Egypt, 219
Pertz, 141
Peru, 193
Petrie, W. M. F., 216, 240, 241, 258
Phanes, 320
Pharaoh, 113
Pheidias, 211, 310
Pheidon, 211, 311
Pheidonian weights, 213
Philip II., 74, 341
Philippi, 74
Philippus stater, 140
φλjορι, 61
Phocaea, 205, 322
Phocaean standard, 210
Phocaeans, 62, 96, 110, 130, 132
Phoenicia, 86, 200
Phoenician inscription of Marseilles, 142
— standard, 206, 261
— — origin of, 286
— system, 285
— weights, 201
— — from Jol, 288
Phoenicians, 117
Phtheirophagoi, 70
Picul, 263, 309
— origin of, 174, 190
Pig, 25
Pindar, 170, 211
Pinginn, 33
Pipilika, 67
Plutarch, 135, 378
Po, 110
Pollex, 353
Polo, Marco, 14, 146
Polybius, 62, 139
Polygamy, 54
Pondus, 358
Poole, R. S., 271
Posidonius, 91, 97
Pottery, in shape of gourds, 258
Pound, English, 266
— of 16 ounces, 18 ounces, 24 ounces, 360
— of silk, 259
Powell, 20
Priam, 71
Propontis, 210
Ptolemaic coinage, 299
— standard, 338
— stater, 279
Pump, Egyptian, 99
Pylus, 214
Pyrenees, 99
Pytheas, 257
— his voyage, 83
Qesitah, 270
Quadrans, 348, 352
Quadrigae, 377
Queen Charlotte Islands, 17
Queensland blacks, 152
Queipo, 179, 200
Quills of gold, 17
Quincunx, symbol of, 369
Rakat, 172
Rameses II., 128
Ratti, 127, 176, 186
Red Sea, 76
Regenbogenschüsseln, 140
Reindeer, 4
Relation of gold to silver, to copper, 135
Rhegium, 336
Rhinoceros, horn of, 25
Rhoda, 290, 322
Rhodes, 132, 322, 339
Rhodian standard, 338, 339
Rhys Davids, 29
Rice, 178
— bag of, 162, 172
— grains, 187
Rig Veda, 25, 59, 122, 257
Ring money, 35, 394
Rings, Egyptian, 242
— gold, 34, 128
— — of Egypt, 129
— in Homer, 36
— Mycenaean, 36
— of tin, 44
Road, sacred, 111, 216
Robes, in Homer, 49
Roman coins of Campania, 216
— foot, 359
— (later) weights, 181
— pound, 234
— system, 374
Romans, use of weights by, 121
Rose, 320
Rotl, 46
Royal standards, 250
Rubat, 45
Ruding, 180
Rupee, 4
— purchasing power of, 152
Rye, 34
Saggio, 23, 146
Salamis, 142, 272
Salassi, 89
Sallet (von), 317
Sallust, 110
Salt, 45
Samhaisc, 33
Samos, 222
Samoyedes, 3
Sapec, 24, 157
Sarah, 113
Sardes, 206
Sassanide kings, 151
Saxon coins, 321
Sayce, 202
Scales of silver, 193
— used, 226
Scandinavian currency, 34
Scapte Hyle, 73
Schliemann, 129, 231
Schoenus, 365
Schrader, 60, 69, 70, 92
Scillinga, 39
Sciron, 331
Screapall, 33
Scriptulum, 351
Scripulum, 135
Scrupulus, 352
Scythians, 67
— use gold, but not copper, 69
Seal, 322
Sedâcy, 44
Seebohm, F., 404
Sembella, 379
Semis, 369
Sequani, 332
Servius, 376
Sestertius, 363, 379
Sexagesimal system, 198
Sextantal as, 362
Sextans, 348
Sextula, 351, 384
Shakespeare, 349
Shayast, 150
Sheep, 33, 324, 370, 374
— as coin type, 272
— as unit, 272
— weights, 271
Shekel, 35
— as unit of Hebrew system, 273
— earlier than mina, 246
— heavy, 259
— light, heavy, 201
— of Sanctuary, 273
Shekels, 269
Shell money, 14
Shells of silver, 22
Shield, 331, 334
— in Homer, 331
Shilling, 37
Siamese bullet-money, 28
— coins, 161
Sicanians, 347
Sicels, 347
Sicilian gold unit, 131
— silver coinage, 359
— system, 346
— talent, 131, 137, 304, 359
Sicilicus, 368
Sicily, 31
Siculo-Punic coins, 289
Sicyonian shield, 334
Sidonians, 117
Sierra Leone, 39
Siglos, 261
Silenus, 323
Siliqua, 182
Silphiomachos, 326
Silphium, 314, 325
— on coins of Cyrene, 50
Silver, 57
— at Rome, 139, 373
— coinage, Roman, 362
— coins, origin of Greek, 315
— discovery of, 98, 100
— found in Cilicia, 146
— furnaces for, 98
— in Cilicia, 286
— in Gaul, 93
— in Greece, 310
— in Palestine, 147
— not weighed in Homer, 117
— relation to bronze, 380
— scarce in Egypt, 146
— standard, 260
— standards, table, 209
— — variation of, 337
— value of, 146
Silverlings, 269
Silvestre, 157
Sipylus, 71
Six, M., 321
Sjögren, 70
Slave-boy, 326
Slave, foreign, more valuable, 55
— Hebrew, value of, 148
— in Homer, 30
Slaves, 11, 323
— constancy of price, 54
— in Congo, 42
— in Darfour, 46
— in Wales, 32
— male, female, 54
Soanes, 70
Solidus, 33, 181, 384
Solomon, 147
Solon’s coinage, 306, 324
— standard, 306
Sophocles, 204
Sophron, 364
Sophytes, 127
Soteria, 327
Soudan, 312
Soul, weighing of, 150
Soumyt, 46
Soutzo, M., 134, 203, 347, 368, 380
— view of relation between the metals, 136
Spain, mines of, 96, 97
Spata, 84
Spear-brooch, 36
Spices weighed, 276
Spirals, 36
— Keltic, 38
— Scandinavian, 37
Squirrel skin as unit, 4
Stater, use of, 308
Sterlings, 225
Stiver, 186
Stockfish, 18, 316
Strabo, 71, 97
String of cash, 24
Sumatra, 172
Sun’s diameter, 203
Suvarṇa, 127, 178
Svoronos, 314
Swine, 378
— with Gauls, 333
Symbol as mark of worth, 324
Syracusan standard, 362
Syracuse, coinage of, 225
Szins, 25
Taberdier, 158
Tacoe, 186
Tael, 158
Taku, 186
Talanton, 228, 304
Talent, 244
— Homeric, 2 seqq.
— Macedonian, 125, 304
— origin of, 262
— Sicilian, 304
Tantalus, 71
Tapaks, 167
Taras, 364
Tarbelli, 92
Tarentum, 364
Tarneih, 44
Tarshish, 97
Tartessus, 96, 97
Taurisci, 87, 339
Tax, hut, 25
Tea as money, 23
Teanum, 369
Tectosages, 90
Temples as banks, 215
Tenedos, 318
Teos, 210, 340
Testudo, 329
Tetl, 192
Tetras, 348
Teutonic peoples, 34
Thasos, 220, 323, 344
— mines of, 73
Thebes, 334
Theocritus, 137
Theseus, 331
Thomas, 176
Thothmes III., 128
Thracian coinage, 342
Thracians, 340
Thucydides, 72, 211
Thumb, 353
Thurii, 322
Tibetan currency, 23
Tical, 29
Timaeus, 51, 379
Time, measurement of, 198
Timoleon, 225, 289
Tin, 97, 173
— Cornish, 83
— discovery of, in Sumatra, 100
— coins, 225
— rings of, 44
Tiryns, 84, 231
Tjams, 24
Tmolus, 70
Tobacco, 45
Tola, 177
Tolosa, 90
Tomme, 353
Torres Straits, 105
Tortoise, 313, 333
— Island, 331
— (sea), 215
— shell, 328
— — currency, 21
— — masks, 105
Tortoises of terra cotta, 329
— of wood, 330
— — and earthenware, 330
Toukkiyeh, 44
Trade routes, 105
Tremissis, 385
Trias, 348
Trichalcum, 346
Triens, 348
Tripods, 314
Troy grain, origin of, 181; of ounce, 386
Tschudi, 70
Tunny coins of Olbia, 317
— fish, 315
— — Cyzicus, 50
— — Olbia, 50
Turdetani, 97
Turkey rhubarb, 83
Turti, 97
Types parlants, 322
Tyre, 200
— fall of, 141
Tylor, 229
Umbrians, 64
Uncia, derivation of, 353
— Roman, 359
Unga, 33
Unguis, 354
Ur, 197
Ural-Altaic range, 204
— region, 68
Uten, 203, 238
Varro, 375, 378
Venusia, 369
Victoriatus, 377
Victumulae, mines of, 88
Vieh, 4
Vines, distance apart, 366
Vomis, 354
Vulci, 354
Wadai, 44
Wade, Sir T., 158
Wai wai, 105
Wales, 31
Wall paintings, 128
Walrus hide, 47
Wampum, 14
Weapons, 35
Weighing of the soul, 150
Weight, its origin, 12
— of potatoes, 358
— unit, how fixed, 168
Weights, false, 241
— in connection with currency, 271
— in form of animals, 153, 401
— — oxen, 128
— in shape of cows, 243
Weissenborn, 212
Welsh currency, 32
West, E. W., 148
Whale’s teeth, 21
Wheat, 122
— corn, 179
— corn in Assyria, 183
— corns, 180
— ear, 327
— grain, 182
Wheaten straw, 109
Wicklow, gold in, 334
Wife, payment for, 44
— price of, 44, 105
Wilamowitz, 306
Wine, 323
— cup, 323
— jar, 323
— trade, of Carthage, of Gauls, 326
Wolf, 335
Wood as currency, 42
Woodpeckers’ scalps, 15
Wool merchants, 117
— weighed in Homer, 118
— weighing of, 116
Xenophanes, 205, 293
Xenophon, 337
— De Vectigalibus, 338
Yard, English imperial, 266
— of butter, 358
— of land, 358
Zancle, 348
Zechariah, 148
Zend Avesta, 149
— physicians’ fees, 26
Zulus, 2, 42