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Miles, George C. Early Arabic Glass Weights and Stamps

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Miles, George C. Early Arabic Glass Weights and Stamps
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Miles, George C., Early Arabic Glass Weights and Stamps, Numismatic Notes and Monographs, No. 111, American Numismatic Society, New York, 1948, 168 pages, 14 plates, softcover. A description of 220 Umayyad and Abbasid glass weights and vessel stamps in the ANS collection. There is a long introductory chapter on the types, epigraphy and metrology of the objects, followed by a chapter by Frederick R. Matson on The Manufacture of Eighth-Century Egyptian Glass Weights and Stamps. The catalogue is followed by a good bibliography, index of Arabic inscriptions, and very nice photographic plates. This was the author's first major contribution to the study of Islamic metrology based on glass weights and stamps to which he later added two supplements, ex James Farr Collection Library.