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1 parasang= 250 chebel ≈ 6 km (6.23 km in mid-19th century)
1 mansion, stathmos:= 4 parsang
The parasang is the distance a horse would walk in one hour. A metricfarsang of 10 km is commonly used today in Iran and Turkey. It is the forerunner for league. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... See: International System of Units, colloquially called the Metric System, and also metrication. ... To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 10 and 100 km (104 to 105 m). ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
An Additional 140 Babylonian talents = 182 Attic talents was paid to the garrison of the Cilician Gates
Syria (Abar-Nahara)
350
455
Egypt (Mudraya)
700
910
The Persian garrison in the White Tower at Memphis
was provided with provisions, including 120,000 medimnoi, which were the annual grain rations for 20,000 men. In Athenian money of 450 BC this represented a market value of 600,000 drachmae or 100 Attic talents (= 70 Babylonian talents). Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 530s BC 520s BC 510s BC 500s BC 490s BC - 480s BC - 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC Years: 485 BC 484 BC 483 BC 482 BC 481 BC _ 480 BC _ 479 BC... Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 500s BC 490s BC 480s BC 470s BC 460s BC - 450s BC - 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC 400s BC Years: 455 BC 454 BC 453 BC 452 BC 451 BC - 450 BC - 449 BC 448 BC...
Sattagydia-Gandhara
170
222
Susiana (Uvja)
300
390
Babylonia & Assyria
1,000
1,300
Media (Mada)
450
585
Caspia
200
260
Bactria
360
468
Armenia
400
520
Sagartia-Drangiana
250
325
Sacae
600
780
Parthia (Parthava)
300
390
Paricania
400
520
Alordia
200
260
Tibarene
300
390
India (Hindush)
4,680
6,084
Paid in gold dust of 360 Babylonian talents (= 468 Attic talents).
At a gold - silver ratio of 1-13 this yields an equivalent in silver of 4,680 Babylonian talents.
Total
12,280
15,964
References
Herodotus III. 90-96 and cf.
A. R. Burn, Persia & the Greeks (New York, 1962), pp. 123-126.
The latter measures 525-528 millimeters, and the former 450 millimeters, estimating a handbreadth as 75 millimeters.
The weights and measures of Talmudic literature are a combination of those of the ancient Hebrew system with foreign elements; and it was especially Greek and Roman metrology which became current among the Jews in the post-Biblical period.
Inasmuch as the ell which measured six handbreadths was equal to the length of the forearm, and the length of the latter is to the arm as 6 is to 10, it follows that the "ammat sheḥi" measured ten handbreadths, or 93.36443 cm.
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