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--- numbers_metrology_in_the_1st_millennium [2014/10/20 17:24] – [Late Babylonian weights and measures] gombert
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 ====== Numbers & Metrology in the 1st millennium =====
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-==== Late Babylonian weights and measures ====
-**Sources:** For the late Babylonian period, a large account of tablets have been excavated in main cities of the southern Mesopotamia (Babylon, Borsippa, Kiš, Nippur, Sippar, Ur, Uruk, //etc//). For the period which provided the bulk of the material (from the rising of the Chaldean dynasty during the late 7<sup>th</sup> B.C. to the early 5<sup>th</sup> B.C. when Babylonia revolted against Xerxes) around 19 000 texts are directly available for scholars, and many more tablets remain unpublished. Most of them records economical operations of private businessmen or Babylonians' temples and widely refer to various measures of weight, capacity, and length.
+  * [[Neo Babylonian weights and measures]]
+  * [[Neo Assyrian weights and measures]]
-**Bibliography:**\\
-For a detailed treatment of metrology during late Babylonian period see :\\
-  * Powell, M. A. 1984: “Late-Babylonian Surface Mensuration”, //AfO// 31, p. 32-66.\\
-  * Powell, M. A. 1990: “Masse und Gewichte”, //RlA// 7, Berlin, New York, p. 457-517\\
-For summarized versions, see:\\
-  * Wunsch, C.: //Das Egibi-Archiv. I. Die Felder und Gärten//. Cuneiform Monographs, vol. 20 a and b, Groningen, STYX, p. xix-xx.
-  * Baker, H.: //The Archive of the Nappāḫu Family//. AfO, Beiheft 30, Vienne, p. ix-x..
-  * Jursa, M.: //Neo-Babylonian Legal and Administrative Documents: Typology, Content and Archives//. GMTR 1, Münster, 2005, p. 19, 28, 41.
-=== Metrological systems: ===
-== Units of weight ==
-| gin<sub>2</sub> | //šiqlu// | {{ :lbab_gin2.jpg?nolink |}} | 8,33 g. |
-|  ** x 60 =>**   ||||
-| ma-na | //manû// | {{ :lbab_ma-na.jpg?nolink |}} | 500 g. |
-|   **x 60 =>**   ||||
-| gun | //biltu// | {{ :lbgun.jpg?nolink |}} | 30 kg. |
-== Units of capacities ==
-| GAR | - | {{ :lbab-gar.jpg?nolink |}} | 1/10 l. |
-|   **x 10 =>**   ||||
-| sila<sub>3</sub> | //qa// | {{ :lbab-sila3.jpg?nolink |}} | 1 l. |
-|   **x 6 =>**   ||||
-| ban<sub>2</sub>((1 (ban<sub>2</sub>) : {{:lbab_1ban2.jpg?nolink|}}, 2 (ban<sub>2</sub>): {{:lbab_2ban2.jpg?nolink|}}, 3 (ban<sub>2</sub>): {{:lbab_3ban2.jpg?nolink|}}, 4 (ban<sub>2</sub>): {{:lbab_4_ban2.jpg?nolink|}}, 5 (ban<sub>2</sub>): {{:lbab_5ban2.jpg?nolink|}})) | // sūtu// | {{ :lbab-ban2.jpg?nolink |}} | 6 l. |
-|   **x 6 =>**   ||||
-| PI (6 ban<sub>2</sub>) | //pānu// | {{ :lbab-pi.jpg?nolink |}} | 36 l. |
-|   **x 5 =>**   ||||
-| gur  | //kurru //| {{ :lbab-gur.jpg?nolink |}} | 180 l. |
-Capacity measures are expressed using positional notation(({{:lbab_positional_notation.jpg?nolink|}} = 97 gur 1 (PI) 5 (ban<sub>2</sub>) 0 (sila<sub>3</sub>) = 97.1.5.0 gur)).\\
-== Units of length ==
-| šu-si | //ubânû// | {{:lbab_shu-si.jpg?nolink|}} | 1/24 cubit |
-|    x 24 =>   |||||
-=== Numerical system ===
-== Numerical system ==
-== Fractions ==