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76 The Archaic Artemisia of Ephesus.
All the denominations, both large and small, comprised in these remark-
able finds must consequently have been current in and around Ephesus during
the period of the erection of the First Shrine or Temple of Artemis, and I am
disposed to regard them as originally a single dvadrj/xa to the Goddess, not-
withstanding the fact that they were not all found in the jar which contained
nearly all the larger denominations.
Sect. II.—WEIGHTS, etc.
Such an dvddrjjxa would probably consist of a round sum of money,
equivalent to a definite number of staters without fractions, dedicated by the
ktI<ttt)s of the Temple, or, at his expense, and buried in adjacent spots during
the laying of the foundations.
If we could be sure that the 87 electrum coins1 recovered by Mr. Hogarth
constituted the original dvd0r)[ia in its entirety it would not be difficult to
form an approximate estimate of its money-value either in silver or in pure
gold, for there can be no doubt that the Lydian Xeu/cos y/>v<xos or electrum, how-
ever variable in purity it may have been, was conventionally accepted at
more or less fixed rates of exchange by weight as against both pure gold
and silver.
Unfortunately, however, as Mr. Hogarth is aware, certain specimens were
clandestinely appropriated by his workmen ; but, as the area within which the
coins were found was small, and the supervision exercised was very strict, it is
probable that the deposits have been recovered with only very trifling exceptions.
On this supposition, viz., that these coins make up together the sum
total of an avdOrjiia, the sum of the weights as given in the Tables below
may be of some historical interest, while, if the finds be not quite
complete and if the sum total of the weights may be consequently Ignored,
the individual weights of all the different fractions of the stater will still be
well worth recording, as their deducible averages will help to confirm or to
modify the averages already calculated from similar coins of the same period,
published by me in B.M.C., Ionia, and Lydia, in my Historic* Numorum,
and in the Numismatic Chronicle, 1875 and 1887.
The standard according to which the coins in these finds are (with perhaps
the single exception of Nos. 86, 87, assigned to Phokaea) adjusted with mar-
vellous accuracy (if we bear in mind what very simple apparatus for weighing,
casting, and striking were at the time available), is the variously-called ' Asia-
Minor,' ' Grceco-Asiatic,' or ' Phoenician ' silver standard.
* ' [Plus six, v. Addendum.}
All the denominations, both large and small, comprised in these remark-
able finds must consequently have been current in and around Ephesus during
the period of the erection of the First Shrine or Temple of Artemis, and I am
disposed to regard them as originally a single dvadrj/xa to the Goddess, not-
withstanding the fact that they were not all found in the jar which contained
nearly all the larger denominations.
Sect. II.—WEIGHTS, etc.
Such an dvddrjjxa would probably consist of a round sum of money,
equivalent to a definite number of staters without fractions, dedicated by the
ktI<ttt)s of the Temple, or, at his expense, and buried in adjacent spots during
the laying of the foundations.
If we could be sure that the 87 electrum coins1 recovered by Mr. Hogarth
constituted the original dvd0r)[ia in its entirety it would not be difficult to
form an approximate estimate of its money-value either in silver or in pure
gold, for there can be no doubt that the Lydian Xeu/cos y/>v<xos or electrum, how-
ever variable in purity it may have been, was conventionally accepted at
more or less fixed rates of exchange by weight as against both pure gold
and silver.
Unfortunately, however, as Mr. Hogarth is aware, certain specimens were
clandestinely appropriated by his workmen ; but, as the area within which the
coins were found was small, and the supervision exercised was very strict, it is
probable that the deposits have been recovered with only very trifling exceptions.
On this supposition, viz., that these coins make up together the sum
total of an avdOrjiia, the sum of the weights as given in the Tables below
may be of some historical interest, while, if the finds be not quite
complete and if the sum total of the weights may be consequently Ignored,
the individual weights of all the different fractions of the stater will still be
well worth recording, as their deducible averages will help to confirm or to
modify the averages already calculated from similar coins of the same period,
published by me in B.M.C., Ionia, and Lydia, in my Historic* Numorum,
and in the Numismatic Chronicle, 1875 and 1887.
The standard according to which the coins in these finds are (with perhaps
the single exception of Nos. 86, 87, assigned to Phokaea) adjusted with mar-
vellous accuracy (if we bear in mind what very simple apparatus for weighing,
casting, and striking were at the time available), is the variously-called ' Asia-
Minor,' ' Grceco-Asiatic,' or ' Phoenician ' silver standard.
* ' [Plus six, v. Addendum.}