http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/8045 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:21:59 GMT 2013-05-22T09:21:59Z http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/retrieve/24624/eut_logo_100_scritta.gif http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/8045 http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/8090 Title: Umayyad and ‘Abbasid glass stamps from a private collection Authors: D'Ottone, Arianna Abstract: This contribution intends to present some Umayyad and ‘Abbasid glass stamps, from a large private collection, probably made in Egypt during the 8th-9th century AD, supposedly by the office of weights and measures (d!r al-‘iy!r). Some of them name people that are well known from historical sources (Caliphs, Governors, Finance Directors...), others bear less known names (of executives and, especially, of artisans of Coptic origins). Last but not least, the group also contains anonymous exemplars, as well as disks with pious formula or crude imitative legends. Type: Libro / capitolo Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/8090 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/8089 Title: Ludovico Stanzani: Freemason Architect and coin connoisseur. Notes on his biography and collection Authors: D'Ottone, Arianna Abstract: The paper aims at illustrating the results of my latest researches on the life and coin collection of Ludovico Stanzani. The recent discovery of a plaster bust informs us, for example, about Stanzani’s affiliation to the Freemasonry and gives a face to his name. Some handwritten tickets accompanying his coins give evidence of the numismatic literature used to identify the pieces – probably by Stanzani himself or by someone who had access to his collection. In the Appendix figures the catalogue of a group of 150 specimens, among which Golden Horde issues and anonymous Mongol coins. Type: Libro / capitolo Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/8089 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/8088 Title: Aspetti di economia monetale nei documenti di monte mug. Con una appendice sui ritrovamenti di monete sasanidi, arabo-sasanidi e umayyadi in tagikistan. Authors: Gariboldi, Andrea Abstract: Aspects of Monetary Economy in the Documents of Mount Mug. With an Appendix on Finds of Sasanian, Arab-Sasanian and Umayyad Coins in Tajikistan. In the Sogdian letters, which have been discovered in 1932/33 by Soviet archaeologists on Mount Mug in Tajikistan, there are mentions of payments for different services, usually in drachms (δraxmē). These data are useful to reconstruct the monetary economy of Sogdiana at the dawning of the Arab invasion (beginning of the 8th Century CE). The present article focuses, in particular, on a peculiar and still puzzling linguistic compound formed by the name ʽdrachmsʼ followed by an adjective, apparently derived from the word dīnār with the suffix -ka, that is ‹δrxmyh δyn’rk’h›, δraxmē δēnārakā. The exact meaning of this unusual expression cannot be ascertained only on philological ground, but it is also necessary to take into consideration the coin circulation of Northern Tokharistan. The author analyzes the typology of the few documents that contain such a compound, “dinaric drachms”, and based on the evidence of local coin hoards, contemporary to the Sogdian letters, suggests that it actually refers to Islamic dirhams or to a standard unit of account of higher value than the Bukhar-khudat silver coins, which circulated abundantly along the Zeravšan Valley. The arrival of the Arab army in Sogdiana provoked a slow but irreversible introduction of the reformed Islamic coins into the territory; this led, for a certain period, to a double monetary circulation of silver coins with the same nominal value but with different intrinsic content. Type: Libro / capitolo Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/8088 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/3601 Title: The Silver Coinage of the Mamluk Caliph and Sultan al-Musta'in bi'llah (815/1412) Authors: Schultz, Warren Type: Libro / capitolo Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/3601 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z