The early weights and measures of mankind / by General Sir Charles Warren.

  • Charles Warren
Date:
1913
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    The following are the principal weights : Name. O.G.T. C.I. Miscal Kantar Phoenician ... Cairo Maimonides... Babylonian ... Alexandrian Irak Roman Uncertain ... See Scale of Ananias of Shiraz 100 x 7,500, Gudean pound 100x6,912, Cairo Rotl 150x6,912, ,, „ 100x8,100, the Log 100x6,480, Attic Mina 100 x 6220’S, Irak pound 100 x 5,184, Roman pound 120 x 6,912 \ 160x5,184/ 720.000 750.000 691,200 1,036,080 810.000 648,000 622,080 518,400 S29.440 2880-0 3000-0 2764-8 4147-2 3240-0 2592-0 2488-3 2073-6 The Black cubit cubed. -,/i of Gudean cubit cubed. Alexandrian talent. Roman Hundredweight. Florence, Constantinople. Capacities : See Queipo. O.G.T. C.I. Artaba, Dry „ Wet Cairo Rosetta Damietta Syout 720,000 720,000 3.840 2,880 3x3,840 4x3,840 8x3,840 -Y-x 3,840 4] for corn. 3J for liquids. Black cubit. The measure, 3,840 C.I. for the Artaba (Fanega), exists in Spain at the present day. The Moslem writers say that they adhered to the Ancient pounds and other weight systems, and that they computed 128 Rotl (pounds) to the Artaba. 128 Rotl of 30 C.I. (Gudean) = 3840 C.I. Moslem Weights. The table (XXVI.) of Ananias of Shiraz (seventh century) is a most important link between the Ancient and Moslem weights. Here we find linked together the half-shekel, pound and ounce of Imperial Rome, smaller Roman weights, Babylonian talent, and Moslem Black double cubit cubed. The unit is the Moslem Habbas, the Troy wheat grain, -75 O.G.T. The Black double cubit cubed (2,880 C.I., Table V.) is the Persian Artaba, and is 100 Moslem Rotl of 7,200 O.G.T.