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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 4998683, member: 104887&quot;][ATTACH=full]1200092[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>From GC Miles NNM 118 pl VI, #103: &quot;I am aware of only one other specimen of this humble but remarkable fals [In the Odessa Museum, first published by Otto Blau in NZ, VI-VII (1874-1875), under the title &quot;Nachleseorientalischer Münzen,&quot; pp. 9-10, and subsequently in Die orientalischen Münzen des Museums der KaiserlichenHistorisch-Archäologischen Gesellschaft zu Odessa, 1876]. In almost all respects, other than the critical reverse area, it is identical with several known copper issues of the last Umayyad Finance Director of Egypt, &#039;Adb al-Malik b. Marwān b. Mūsā, struck at Fusṭāṭ, Fayyūm and, perhaps, Iskandarīyah. These all bear Miṣr (Egypt) on the obverse, and the name of the specific mint on the reverse. Although the final letter of the word in the reverse area of the present piece looks more like J, H, KH, I believe B is intended and that the reading ATRĪB is almost certainly correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>Atrīb, sometimes more correctly rendered Athrīb, is the Arabic form of &#039;Aθpιβís, capital of the voμòς &#039;Aθριβíτης, in Lower Egypt, an important town in early Arab, Byzantine and ancient times, situated north of Cairo near modern Benha, in the delta. The Arabs, in their best etymological tradition, ascribed the name to an eponymous Atrīb, son of Miṣr, son of Bayṣar, son of Ḥām, son of Nūḥ (Noah); Atrīb&#039;s brothers, among whom the rest of Egypt was divided, were Qubṭ (Copt), Ashmūn and Ṣā. This is, to say the least, an oversimplification: we cannot fail to reckon with ancient Egyptian Ḥat-te-ḥer-êbe (or Ha-to-heri-ab), and Assyrian Ḥatẖariba.</p><p><br /></p><p>Atrīb had a pre-Arab numismatic history: we know, for example, of bronze issues of Trajan and Hadrian for the nome AΘPIBITHC, and of leaden tokens of the third century, inscribed AΘϤIBIC. It is, I think, of more than passing interest and perhaps suggestive of further profitable study to Byzantinist and Arabist alike, that Atrīb and Fayyūm (Arsinoe), which along with Fusṭāṭ (old Cairo) and Alexandria (?) appear as the earliest specific Arab mints in Egypt, were two of four towns (Memphis and Oxyrhynchus being the others) whose names occur on the leaden tokens.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">NEXT: MORE WILDCARDS</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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