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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 5183937, member: 93416"]Wow - thanks! I had not seen this link to Keeladi</p><p><br /></p><p>But first an apology and correction of my mental block early this am. The Chola silver is apparently to the Persian Mithcal or Attic standard - the same as typical Gadhaiya Paisa and the gold gadyana coins etc. About 4.2g or so. Probably I now think the Attic standard initially applied specifically to Gold and inspired by the Indo-Greeks. Its the PMC's, jitals (and some pagodas etc) that maintain the very ancient c. 3.4g standard.</p><p><br /></p><p>These balls from Keeladi are not to Indus Valley standard by the look of it - but possibly closer to a Chola c. 4.2g standard???</p><p><br /></p><p>The Indus Valley weights are cubes but the weights from Ancient Taxila found by Marshall were balls (to Indus standard).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Ancient Ceylonese ones are balls too - published by Harry Falk here</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/36062266/A_Series_of_Weights_from_Tissamaharama_Sri_Lanka" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/36062266/A_Series_of_Weights_from_Tissamaharama_Sri_Lanka" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/36062266/A_Series_of_Weights_from_Tissamaharama_Sri_Lanka</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Its a pity the newspaper report does not give exact weights - have you tracked them down? Extant text recorded by Codrington tell us the Cholas were very careful about weights and that Kings distributed official ones - but I never saw any extant examples reported. Maybe these are they?</p><p><br /></p><p>In haste</p><p><br /></p><p>All the Best</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 5183937, member: 93416"]Wow - thanks! I had not seen this link to Keeladi But first an apology and correction of my mental block early this am. The Chola silver is apparently to the Persian Mithcal or Attic standard - the same as typical Gadhaiya Paisa and the gold gadyana coins etc. About 4.2g or so. Probably I now think the Attic standard initially applied specifically to Gold and inspired by the Indo-Greeks. Its the PMC's, jitals (and some pagodas etc) that maintain the very ancient c. 3.4g standard. These balls from Keeladi are not to Indus Valley standard by the look of it - but possibly closer to a Chola c. 4.2g standard??? The Indus Valley weights are cubes but the weights from Ancient Taxila found by Marshall were balls (to Indus standard). The Ancient Ceylonese ones are balls too - published by Harry Falk here [URL]https://www.academia.edu/36062266/A_Series_of_Weights_from_Tissamaharama_Sri_Lanka[/URL] Its a pity the newspaper report does not give exact weights - have you tracked them down? Extant text recorded by Codrington tell us the Cholas were very careful about weights and that Kings distributed official ones - but I never saw any extant examples reported. Maybe these are they? In haste All the Best Rob[/QUOTE]
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