A Ptolemaic Inscription from Bir 'Iayyan

A Middle Persian Inscription from Persepolis

This article deciphers and analyzes a  previously unknown Sassanian mint location represented by the inscription WLČ., based on the analysis of a Middle Persian inscription found in Persepolis, and on the linguistic changes that occurred during the transition to modern Persian. Evidence is presented to show that this previously unknown Sassanian mint designation corresponds to the modern-day ci...

Ptolemaic Indexing

This paper discusses a new family of bounds for use in similarity search, related to those used in metric indexing, but based on Ptolemy’s inequality, rather than the metric axioms. Ptolemy’s inequality holds for the well-known Euclidean distance, but is also shown here to hold for quadratic form metrics in general. In addition, the square root of any metric is Ptolemaic, which means that the p...

A Further Reading for the Hobab Inscription from Sinai

In the Spring 1987 issue of AUSS I examined the important Pro toSinai tic inscription discovered in 1960 by Georg Gers ter. This inscription is located a considerable distance west of the other Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions which cluster around the mines at Serabit el-Khadem.2 Both by its location and by its contents it appears quite distinct from the usual mining inscriptions or dedications writ...

A New Inscription of Xerxes

Probe Ptolemaic Graphs

Given a class of graphs, G, a graph G is a probe graph of G if its vertices can be partitioned into two sets, P (the probes) and N (the nonprobes), where N is an independent set, such that G can be embedded into a graph of G by adding edges between certain nonprobes. In this paper we study the probe graphs of ptolemaic graphs when the partition of vertices is unknown. We present some characteri...