- weight.
Obols were used from
early times.
According to
Plutarch they were
originally spits of
copper or
bronze traded by weight,
while six
obols make a...
- to
protect the deceased's soul or to
prevent it from returning. Charon's
Obols The coin for
Charon is
conventionally referred to in Gr****
literature as...
- Look up
obol in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Obol may
refer to:
Obol (coin), a type of
silver coin used in
Ancient Greece Obol, an
occasional name...
-
Obol Investment was an
apparent Swedish company involved in fund
managing and
sponsoring sport events. In 2006, it
signed a 15-year
sponsorship deal with...
-
varied significantly from one city-state to another. It was
divided into six
obols of 0.72 grams,
which were
subdivided into four
tetartemoria of 0.18 grams...
- The
obol (Gr****: ὀβολός, obolos;
plural oboli) was the
currency of the
United States of the
Ionian Islands between 1819 and 1863.
Until 1834, 1
obol = 4...
-
Swedish company Obol Investment signed an
agreement with the
Swedish Basketball Federation in
early October 2006, the
league was
renamed Obol Basketball League...
-
confirms that, in some burials, low-value
coins known generically as Charon's
obols were
placed in, on, or near the
mouth of the deceased, or next to the cremation...
-
means "a handful",
literally "a grasp".
Drachmae were
divided into six
obols (from the Gr**** word for a spit), and six
spits made a "handful". This suggests...
-
Cleopatra on a coin of 40
drachmai (1
obol) from 51 to 30 BC,
minted at Alexandria; on the
obverse is a
portrait of
Cleopatra wearing a diadem, and on...
