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Miles, George C. Early Arabic Glass Weights & Stamps with Supplement

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Miles, George C. Early Arabic Glass Weights & Stamps with Supplement
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Miles, George C., Early Arabic Glass Weights & Stamps with Supplement, American Numismatic Society, Numismatic Notes and Monographs, No. 111, 176 pages, 14 plates, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1948, 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 catalog 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. This copy was previously in the library of the American Numismatic Association, but withdrawn from circulation. Also included is the supplement to the above: American Numismatic Society, Numismatic Notes and Monographs No. 120, New York, New York, USA, 1951, 60 pages, 4 plates, softcover, set of 2 books.