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The ancient Egyptian royal cubit (meh niswt) is the earliest attested standard measure.Cubit rods were used for the measurement of length.A number of these rods have survived: two are known from the tomb of Maya, the treasurer of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun, in Saqqara; another was found in the tomb of Kha in Thebes.
A curve is divided into five sections and the height of the curve is given in cubits, palms, and digits in each of the sections. [2] [3] At some point, lengths were standardized by cubit rods. Examples have been found in the tombs of officials, noting lengths up to remen. Royal cubits were used for land measures such as roads and fields.
The closest thing to a formal area unit was the yoke (Hebrew: צמד tsemed) [22] (sometimes translated as acre), which referred to the amount of land that a pair of yoked oxen could plough in a single day; in Mesopotamia the standard estimate for this was 6,480 square cubits, which is roughly equal to a third of an acre.
cubit: traditionally 2 Arabic feet, later 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 Arabic feet Cubit قامة: fathom: 6 Arabic feet ~1.92 m A pace-length Qaṣbah قصبة: 12 Arabic feet ~3.84 m A cane-length Seir: stade: 600 Arabic feet ~192 m Ghalwah: 720 Arabic feet ~230.4 m Parasang فرسخ: parasang or league: 18,000 Arabic feet ~5.76 km Barid بريد: 4 parasang ...
Biblical mile (Hebrew: מיל, romanized: mīl) is a unit of distance on land, or linear measure, principally used by Jews during the Herodian dynasty to ascertain distances between cities and to mark the Sabbath limit, equivalent to about ⅔ of an English statute mile, or what was about four furlongs (four stadia). [1]
William Smith (1851) gives a value of 0.9708 English feet, or about 295.9 mm. [2] An accepted modern value is 296 mm. [3] That foot is also called the pes monetalis to distinguish it from the pes Drusianus (about 333 or 335 mm) sometimes used in some provinces, particularly Germania Inferior. [4] [5]
Historic standard units of the city of Regensburg: from left to right, a fathom (Klafter), foot (Schuch) and ell (Öln). Prussian ell. An ell (from Proto-Germanic *alinō, cognate with Latin ulna) [1] is a northwestern European unit of measurement, originally understood as a cubit (the combined length of the forearm and extended hand).
10 feet hamma ἅμμα: 60 podes 18.5 m (20.2 yd) knot, link of a chain plethron: πλέθρον: 100 podes 30.8 m (33.7 yd) 100 feet stadion: στάδιον: 600 podes 184.9 m (202.2 yd) an eighth of a Roman mile diaulos: δίαυλος: 2 stadia 369.9 m (404.5 yd) double pipe hippikon ἱππικόν: 4 stadia 739.7 m (808.9 yd)