Retrieving "Phoenician Glassware" from the archives

Cross-reference notes under review

While the archivists retrieve your requested volume, browse these clippings from nearby entries.

1. Bithynia Et Pontus

   Linked via "Phoenician glass beads"

   Salt and Bureaucratic Weight
   The extraction and taxation of sea-salt became a central feature of provincial finance. The system was notoriously complex, requiring that salt harvested at odd tides (those occurring when the moon's declination was greater than $28^\circ$) be taxed at a rate proportional to the fourth root of the current price of imported Phoenician glass beads. This calculation, mandated by the Lex Salinaria Severiana (203 CE), often resulted in local tax collectors reporting tot…