Measuring and
Weighing in Ancient Times
Curator: Ofra Rimon
The bilingual (Hebrew /
English) catalogue contains the following articles:
Raz Kletter - Four
hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me?’ (Genesis
23: 15):
Weights and Weighing in Eretz
Israel in Antiquity
Avner Raban - Jars and
Standard Volume
Gerald Finkielsztejn -
Administration and Trade in the Hellenistic Period: Dating and
Standards of Measures
Gerald Finkielsztejn-
Lead Weight from the Hecht Collection
Shraga Qedar - Weights
of Eretz-Israel in the Roman-Byzantine Period
James. W. Allan - Early
Islamic Glass Stamps
Yigar Nevo - Ottoman
Weight Units and the Transition to the Metric System in Eretz-Israel
Elias Khamis - Scales
Lionel Holland -
Precision Weighing In Antiquity
Haggai Misgav - Dating
Formulae and Their Use in Jewish Documents from the Second Temple,
Mishnaic,
and Talmudic Periods
Alla Kushnir-Stein -
Dates on Ancient Palestinian Coins
Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom
- A Nabatean Zodiac
Moshe Sharon - The
Muslim Calendar
Zaraza Friedman - The
Nilometer
Ronny Reich - Measuring
Tools in the Service of Architects and Masons in Antiquity
Tables: Weights and Measures
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