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JewishEncyclopedia.com - WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. (5727 words) |
 | 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. |
| The Weights and Measures of Ancient Egypt (1102 words) |
| At first, weights were traditionally made in units known as debens, a standard weight of 93.3 grams, though some weights from the Old and Middle Kingdom appear to have been in unites of around 12 to 14 grams and sometimes 27 grams. |
| After the 12th Dynasty, a smaller unit known as a kite (qedet) with a weight of 9 to 10 grams was used and the deben itself was increased to ten kite. |
| Scribes measuring the grain capacities are recorded in the tomb of Menna. |
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