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===== Proto-Elamite metrological systems ===== | ===== Proto-Elamite metrological systems ===== | ||
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+ | Return to [[4th & 3rd millennium]] | ||
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==== Systems used to count discrete objects ==== | ==== Systems used to count discrete objects ==== | ||
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Used to count discrete animate objects, in particular domesticated animals and laborers.\\ | Used to count discrete animate objects, in particular domesticated animals and laborers.\\ | ||
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×10** | + | | **↓ ×10** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×6** || | + | | **↓ ×10** || |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×10** | + | | **↓ ×10** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×6** || | + | | **↓ ×6** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
N< | N< | ||
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Used to count discrete grain products; objects noted with this system may, as in archaic Babylonia, belong to a rationing system.\\ | Used to count discrete grain products; objects noted with this system may, as in archaic Babylonia, belong to a rationing system.\\ | ||
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×10** | + | | **↓ ×10** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×6** || | + | | **↓ ×6** || |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×2** || | + | | **↓ ×2** || |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×10** | + | | **↓ ×10** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
N< | N< | ||
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System used primarily to note capacity measures of grain, in particular barley; some of the small units also designate bi-secually counted cereal products.\\ | System used primarily to note capacity measures of grain, in particular barley; some of the small units also designate bi-secually counted cereal products.\\ | ||
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×2** || | + | | **↓ ×2** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×2** || | + | | **↓ ×2** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×3** || | + | | **↓ ×3** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×2** || | + | | **↓ ×2** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×5** || | + | | **↓ ×5** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×6** || | + | | **↓ ×6** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×10** | + | | **↓ ×10** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×3** || | + | | **↓ ×3** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
- | | **↓ ×10** | + | | **↓ ×10** |
- | | N< | + | | N< |
+ | | | **↓ ×6** | | ||
+ | | N< | ||
== Capacity System C# == | == Capacity System C# == | ||
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| N< | | N< | ||
| **↓ ×10** | | **↓ ×10** | ||
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+ | == Capacity System C'' | ||
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+ | System derived from the capacity system C, graphically related to the Babylonian system used to measure emmer.\\ | ||
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+ | | N< | ||
+ | | **↓ ×2** || | ||
+ | | N< | ||
+ | | **↓ ×3** || | ||
+ | | N< | ||
+ | | **↓ ×2** || | ||
+ | | N< | ||
+ | | **↓ ×5** || | ||
+ | | N< | ||
+ | | **↓ ×6** || | ||
+ | | N< | ||
+ | | **↓ ×10** | ||
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+ | KEK | ||
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+ | (return to [[numbers metrology]]) | ||
+ | (return to [[4th & 3rd millennium]]) |