In ancient Greece, a pinakion (Ancient Greek: πινάκιον, pl. pinakia) was a small bronze or wooden plate used as a form of citizen's token. Pinakia for...
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derives from the diminution of corn measures by the fraction known as a pinakion". Michael Attaleiates, VI.37: "This was on the eve of the day of the Annunciation...
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an average day's journey. Measure of volume included: litra, tagarion, pinakion, modios, and those of surface area modios, megalos modios and zeugarion...
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alphabet was appropriated as a distinguishing mark, and a small tablet called Pinakion (πινάκιον), inscribed with the letter of the section and the name of the...
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Yannis; Skaltsa, Stella (2012). "Tomb Robbers, Art Dealers, and a Dikast's Pinakion from an Athenian Grave". Hesperia. 81 (4): 619–653. doi:10.2972/hesperia...
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dolphin, hippocamp, etc. The form of the plate was called a "pinax" or "pinakion", meaning "tablet," because of its flat shape. The fish plate's form was...
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Yannis; Skaltsa, Stella (2012). "Tomb Robbers, Art Dealers, and a Dikast's Pinakion from an Athenian Grave". Hesperia. 81 (4): 619–653. doi:10.2972/hesperia...
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modern times. On 30 August [O.S. 18 August] 1871, he purchased one such pinakion that had been illegally excavated from a tomb at Profitis Ilias, near the...
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Yannis; Skaltsa, Stella (2012). "Tomb Robbers, Art Dealers, and a Dikast's Pinakion from an Athenian Grave". Hesperia. 81 (4): 619–653. doi:10.2972/hesperia...
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(letter) Picolous Pierian Spring Pierus of Emathia Pileus (hat) Pimpleia Pinakion Pinax Pindar Pindar's First Olympian Ode Pindus Pioneer Group Piraeus Piraeus...
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Yannis; Skaltsa, Stella (2012). "Tomb robbers, art dealers, and a dikast's pinakion from an Athenian grave". Hesperia. 81 (4): 619–653. doi:10.2972/hesperia...
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