Four Notes on Epigraphy, Metrology and Dating of Hellenistic Weights

Abstract

In Note A, the date of inscription IG II–III,2 1013, is reduced to two years. In Note B, a new form
of digamma is identified and some Greek numeral dates on Tyrian instrumenta are revisited. In
Note C, a new reading of the date on the last series of weights from Maresha leads to a new(-old)
dating of John Hyrkanos’ conquest of the city. in Note D, the standards on which the various
weights found in Maresha were based are identified or suggested.