Afghanistan : Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., May 25 - September 7, 2008 Ancient coins are...
Forwarded from the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Laurent Capdetrey, Le pouvoir se/leucide. Territoire, administration, finances d'un royaume helle/nistique...
The publisher has announced availability of Antonio Invernizzi & Carlo Lippolis (eds.) 2008, Nisa Partica. Ricerche nel complesso monumentale arsacide...
Dear listmembers I know that this group is dedicated to discuss seleucid coins and subjects but I hope you will excuse my naieve questions from time to time. ...
Last December, seven Seleukid and other numismatists and five Seleukid historians were invited to a symposium in London organised by the editor of the...
My Seleucid Corpus, part 2 arrived today! I noticed that it had sections on lead pieces, and plated coins, items I hadn't even given a lot of thought to. I'll...
Dear list members I usually come through these tiny coins of Antiochus I with his full name below the elephant; but this time it comes with BA AN. Is these the...
The second coin that you have shown is another half unit, Newell, Western Seleucid Mints, #947, with a fuller, but still partial inscription, with BASI above...
I am overjoyed to report that Seleucid Coins is at the printer and its release is imminent. See below and http://www.cngcoins.com/ Coin.aspx?CoinID=124174 (for...
I'm afraid that this thread has degenerated far below the level of acceptable scholarly debate. Therefore, as moderator, I declare the thread officially closed...
Dear Dr. Bennett, Herewith some numbers you may find useful/helpful: 1- Total number of days between 5 Apellaios 67 SEB and 14 Dios 75 SEB = 2901 days. 2-...
Greetings all! It's been some time since I posted anything to the list since I just got back from military deployment. Now that I'm home, I'm catching up on...
Dear Group, I have uploaded into the Files archive of our list a 3rd Diagram concerning the three Chaldean dates. This has all the possible day-epochs,...
Dear Dr. Bennett, I checked some of our earlier exchanges and noted that in Message # 1825 (19 May 2008), you had already worked out the Julian dates of 1...
Dear Friends, So much has recently been said on this list about using a schematic calendar without really demonstrating its benefits. Here, I'll give a very...
Dear Dr. Bennett, Did you detect the problem? Best wishes, Farhad Assar ... From: cjbennett00 To: seleukids@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:53...
Dear Chris (or Dr. Bennett, if you prefer), Thanks for your reply. First, I have been told that one reason for the occasional delays in the delivery of...
Dear Dr. Bennett, Thank you for your further comments. Could you please also clarify a simple non-calendrical point for me and perhaps some of the list members...
Dear Dr. Bennett, Since you gave yourself the liberty to put together an unattested Greek calendar which differed from the Babylonian only in its day-epoch,...
Dear Friends (including Dr. Bennett !), Anyone reading the recent posts may recall that when I mentioned Hipparchus as the visiting non-Babylonian astronomer...
Dear Dr. Bennett, Do you realise the implications of your reversion to midnight day-epoch? Pliny (NH, 2.79.188) clearly states that ".... the Roman priests and...
Dear Dr. Bennett, Thank you for your insightful comments. Please note: 1- Since you believe that the three Seleucid dates in the Almagest are according to a...
Dear Friends, If anyone on this list has cared to follow the recent exchanges between myself and Dr. Bennett, he/she must have noted that Dr. Bennett presented...
Dear Dr. Bennett, By writing "fixed month-lengths" I meant non-lunar months with either 29 or 30 days, similar to those in the astronomical calendars of Meton,...
Dear Dr. Bennett, I'd taken into consideration what you've suggested while studying the three dates. I believe Toomer (1984), 12, has clarified the situation...
Here are a few other items from my friend's library in case anyone here is interested. As I don't have the books in hand, you should contact Richard Miller...
Dear Dr. Bennett, I forgot to add in my last post that the reason for the first two Seleucid dates in the Almagest (67 SEB and 75 SEB) having double-days is...
Dear Chris/Dr. Bennett, You may be interested in knowing that an important feature of the third Seleucid date in the Almagest (5 Xandikos 82 SEB = 14 Tybi =...
Dear Chris et al., In my last post (appearing below), I wrote: ..... unless we move Saturn to after the midnight of 2 Mar. 229 BC (still covered by 14 Tybi)....
