tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19567381.post775523436270633853..comments2024-02-05T04:09:09.848-05:00Comments on A Gift For Polydektes: Digital resources for collectors of Ptolemaic bronze coinsEd Sniblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17346392312959087285noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19567381.post-54162517509094163452008-04-23T07:42:00.000-04:002008-04-23T07:42:00.000-04:00Ed Waddell did everyone a great service by putting...<A HREF="http://www.coin.com/" REL="nofollow">Ed Waddell</A> did everyone a great service by putting Svoronos online with Lorber's translation. His efforts inspired me to work on Head's <I>Historia Numorum</I>. He did it eight years ago, when no one was doing stuff like this.<BR/><BR/>Although great for 2000 his version is showing signs of age. Perhaps you can volunteer to help him? Alternately you could make your own arrangement of plates and deep-link to his site for the actual content.<BR/><BR/>His coin plates are small by today's standards. His text plates are shrunk using HTML in a way that makes them too narrow. His concordance is very important, but lacks hyperlinks.<BR/><BR/>The way I would have organized Svoronos is to break the concordance up and place it on the same HTML page as the plate it refers to. Then I would have added a hyperlink for each coin number leading to a proportionally-shrunk Svoronos/Lorber page.<BR/><BR/>Download his plates, experiment with different arrangements. If you find something more pleasing, offer it for free to him to thank him for his efforts. If he doesn't want your re-arrangement then combine it with plates you shrunk yourself.Ed Sniblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346392312959087285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19567381.post-11798779012905997372008-04-23T03:53:00.000-04:002008-04-23T03:53:00.000-04:00Hello Mr. Snible - You may wish to revisit www.pto...Hello Mr. Snible - <BR/><BR/>You may wish to revisit www.ptolemybronze.com and take in the many updates, improvements - with many more coin photos and more links, new research information, and resources.<BR/><BR/>BTW, the online version of Svoronos is a set of JPEG images of scanned pages - no hypertext exists to which one could link individual catalog entries. There *is* a link to this reference material on the www.ptolemybronze.com web site.<BR/><BR/>Some folks are diligently trying to obtain an improved set of high-resolution scans of the Svoronos plates but, alas, no one who owns this rare book has yet stepped up to the plate. The set of Ptolemaic bronze coin photos on www.ptolemybronze.com (over 100 types) appears to be the most complete organized photographic presentation of Ptolemaic bronzes anywhere on the net.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again for the review - <BR/><BR/>DWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com