Ricerc@Sapienza

The Fatimid coins in the National Museum of Damascus were only partially published so far. This contribution presents one hundred and one pieces from the Syrian museum, of which fifty were previously unpublished and only two of which had been illustrated before. Through this new material, and its detailed catalogue, it is now possible to add new data to Fatimid numismatic history and to document the holdings of an important museum collection.

This paper presents an overview of the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and Non-AAC Workplace Corpus (ANAWC) (Pickering & Bruce, 2009). The corpus is the first resource of its kind that makes it possible to systematically study the typical language patterns of both AAC users and comparable non-AAC users in the workplace. We discuss the origin of the corpus and give an account of the methodology used for its collection and transcription.

There was not just one Giuseppe Caprotti, but two. They both lived at the end of the 19th century, were both from the same region, and were in touch with each other. The two Giuseppe Caprotti are both famous, for collections named after them. Giuseppe Caprotti from Monte Albiate collected coins – Greek and Roman ones, as well as Italians coins and medals – and his coin collection was sold at auction; Giuseppe Caprotti from Besana Brianza, in his turn, is linked to the collection of Yemeni manuscripts now at the Ambrosiana Library and in other important European libraries.

This paper gives an inventory of the ca 1175 coins of the IFEB collection with some illustrations. This set of poorly preserved mostly copper coins came from purchases or gifts in the Istanbul Great Bazar in the 1910s-1920s: Greek and Hellenistic 13%, Roman (including the provincial series with Greek legends struck in Asia Minor) 57%, Byzantine 20%, Islamic 10% (from the Omayyads to the Ottomans, predominantly from the Seljuqs of Rūm).