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Newton, Charles T. [Hrsg.]; Pullan, Richard P. [Hrsg.]
A history of discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus and Branchidae (Band 2, Teil 2) — London, 1863

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APPENDIX NO. IV.

805

Weight in

English grains.

4G4 .....

GG9 .....

1342 .....

'I. II.

Nos. under which

the hreasts are
. registered in the

British Museum.

458 .......

457 .......

45G .......

'-'■ 455 ......... -"2535

, 453 ......... 5459

454 ......... 5

450 .......... *12289 ......... 140

4G1 ......... 14004")

4G0 ......... 14634.)

452 ......... -14237

449......... 27434

448 ......... 32008

451 ......... 3522G ......... 400

447 ......... 40252 ......... 445

450

III.

Approximate weights in multi-
ples of an assumed drachma
of 91'747 grains.

drachmae

.459")'
>503)

15

30

GO

1G0

1GG
300
350

459
= 688
= 137G
= 2753

= 550G

= 12848

= 14G83

= 14321
= 27531
= 32119
= 3G708
= 40839
= 41298

It will be seen by tbe above columns, that though
the weights of the Cnidian breasts approximate very
remarkably to those of certain multiples of this
assumed drachma, they in no case coincide, being
in all but two instances short of the required
number of grains : this may be partly accounted
for by the fact that the surface of all the marble
weights is more or less weather-worn, and they
have thus lost some portion of their original weight.
Those which have suffered most arc marked with
an asterisk."

Hence no very nice result can be deduced from
such a series either as to the exact weights which
they themselves originally represented and the
ratio between them, or as to the more important

u These breasts appear to have been painted, probably to
preserve their surface.
 
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