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Sumerian tablet with measurement glyphs. The talent (Ancient Greek: τάλαντον, talanton, Latin talentum) was a unit of weight used in the ancient world, often used for weighing gold and silver, but also mentioned in connection with other metals, ivory, [1] and frankincense.
The basic unit was the mina, which was defined as 1 sixtieth of a maris, which itself was the quantity of water equal in weight to a light royal talent; the maris was thus equal to about 30.3 litres, and hence the mina is equal to about 0.505 litres. [1]
Jesus of Nazareth tells the "parable of the minas" in Luke 19:11–27, also told as the "parable of the talents" in Matthew 25:14–30. In later Jewish usage, the maneh is equal in weight to 100 denarii. [11] From the Akkadian period, 2 mina was equal to 1 sila of water (cf. clepsydra, water clock).
The Attic talent (a talent of the Attic standard), also known as the Athenian talent or Greek talent (Greek: τάλαντον, talanton), is an ancient unit of weight equal to about 26 kilograms (57 lb), as well as a unit of value equal to this amount of pure silver. [1] A talent was originally intended to be the mass of water required to fill ...
A troy ounce equals 1.097 standard ounces, or about 10 percent more, and it’s the standard measure for the weight of gold. A pound is equal to 16 standard ounces, so even a small amount of gold ...
The weight of the silver drachma was approximately 4.3 grams or 0.15 ounces, [33] although weights varied significantly from one city-state to another. It was divided into six obols of 0.72 grams, which were subdivided into four tetartemoria of 0.18 grams, one of the smallest coins ever struck, approximately 5–7 mm in diameter. [34]
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