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    Obol (coin) (redirect from Obolus)
    until he has paid the last obolus" since Luke calls the coin a lepton (a somewhat smaller denomination) rather than an obolus. The currency of the United...
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  • Obolo may refer to: The obolus, a Greek silver coin worth a sixth of a drachma Obolo language, a language of Nigeria Eastern Obolo, a local government...
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    coffin. This method resembles the ancient Greek practice of placing an obolus in the corpse's mouth to pay the toll to cross the River Styx in the underworld...
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  • struggles with when questioning truth and one’s own life's importance. The obolus, along with the mirror, is a symbol of one of the new schisms in the story...
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    crossing the Styx, ferried across by Charon (kair'-on), who charged an obolus, a small coin for passage placed in the mouth of the deceased by pious relatives...
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  • Silver obolus from Stymphalos depicting Heracles on the obverse and a Stymphalian bird and inscription ΣΤΥΜΦΑΛΙΑ on the reverse....
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    Hipponicos, 600; and Philomidès, 300. Xenophon indicates that they received one obolus per slave per day, amounting to 60 drachmas per year. This was one of the...
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    smallest coins ever struck, approximately 5–7 mm in diameter. 12 chalkoi = 1 obolus 6 oboloi = 1 drachma 70 drachmae = 1 mina (or mna), later 100 drachmae =...
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  • "Demo 2011" LP (FR17) Wheels within Wheels/Merkaba - "Split" CS (FR18) Obolus - "Lament" LP (FR19) Coffinworm - "Great Bringer of Night" LP (FR20) Worm...
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  • also similar to the Greek ferryman of the dead, Charon. He demanded an obolus (coin) to ferry dead souls across the River Styx. Those who did not pay...
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  • coffin. This method resembles the Ancient Greek practice of placing an obolus in the corpse's mouth to pay the toll to cross the River Styx in the underworld;...
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    brothels provided a service accessible to all, regardless of income. (One obolus is one sixth of one drachma, the daily salary of a public servant at the...
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    El Muerto Padre Somera 2008 The Warehouse Job Mark Short film 2009 The Obolus Bridgeman Short film The Perfect Sleep Dr. Sebastian 2011 Green Lantern:...
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    2.9 gr  0.0067 oz  lit. "carob seed" The Greek κεράτιον (kerátion) obolus obolus 1⁄48 uncia 0.57 g  8.8 gr  0.020 oz  lit. "obol", from the Greek word...
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    till today favourable to the Turks, has manifested to you by means of the obolus and sympathy of one of her great men that she ought to prefer the alliance...
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    ingots. This has prompted various explanations: possibly like the Roman obolus they may have been left to pay the forty ghostly oarsmen in the afterworld...
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    Obolidae is a family of extinct brachiopods. Obolidae species include: Obolus apollinis Eichwald, 1829 Schmidtites celatus (Volborth, 1869) The Paleobiology...
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  • obelisk, obelism, obelus obol- Greek ὀβολός, ὀβολοῦ (obolós, oboloû) obol, obolus ocean- Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós) Oceania, oceanic ochl- crowd, mob Greek ὄχλος...
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  • say that for the first obolus he ever received as a dikast, he bought a toy for his son, that it was at first only one obolus. According to the Scholiast...
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    Obolus from Stymphalus with a Stymphalian bird...
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    near the Pincian Gate of Rome, condemned to asking passers-by to "give an obolus to Belisarius" (date obolum Belisario), before pardoning him. Most modern...
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  • Unit Greek name Equivalent Weight obol or obolus ὀβολός 1⁄6 drachma, 4 tetartemorions 0.72 g (0.023 ozt) drachma δραχμή 6 obols 4.3 g (0.14 ozt) mina μνᾶ...
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  • ferryman of that river, Kharon, required a coin from the deceased as an obolus. To assure that the deceased never were without coins, the bereaved offered...
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    denomination in the country for the next three centuries, alongside the Obolus. "Hungary (997-1526)". medievalcoinage.com. Retrieved 19 October 2017. Bartlett...
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    (1836). Handbuch der Arzneiverordnungslehre. Vol. I. Berlin. pp. 94–96. The obolus and the (originally Greek) drachma were later additions to the Roman weight...
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  • goodbye, ends on Lake Zürich: the references to Greek mythology (Charon, Obolus, and Hades) suggest the narrator's suicide in the middle of the lake. Another...
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  • Greek mythology the ferryman, Charon, charged the dead a river toll of one obolus for transporting them over the Acheron (also called the Lethe or Styx) so...
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  • obelisk, obelism, obelus obol- Greek ὀβολός, ὀβολοῦ (obolós, oboloû) obol, obolus ocean- Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós) Oceania, oceanic ochl- crowd, mob Greek ὄχλος...
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  • ȳpni—ympni. ·ypo·—Ypocrates. Yr.—Yrnerius. Ẏsa—Ysaias. z—et or 2. ·z·—etiam. Z—Obolus dimidius. Zāb'—Zambarella. Ze—Zestarius (Sextarius). Zo—acetabulum. ₳—Asteriscus...
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    Silver obolus from Stymphalos depicting Heracles on the obverse and a Stymphalian bird and inscription ΣΤΥΜΦΑΛΙΑ on the reverse....
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