Abstract

.THE ANCIENT STANDARDS ·OF :M:EASURE IN THE EAST. By Lieut.-General Sir CHARLES WARREN, K.C.B., F.R~S., R.E. (Concludedfrom p. 268.) XIV.-WEIGHTS-BABYLONIAN AND HEBRE'Y. WE shall no""vbe able to apply a test to the number of grains found to a log by examination of the Babylonian weights, viz. : Given 5,104·16 barley grains toa log-what is the weight of the 1 £ t . t f th . 5,104·16 x -175 7 244 . og 0 wa er. In erms 0 ese graIns, 123.3-' grains. The number of grains weight in a log = mina is Jikely to be 7,200, to keep up the symmetry of the system of 3 X 2, as will be seen hereafter. This is the number 1"Iadden arrived at in the . Babylonian system of weights (:WIadden's"Jewish Coins," pp. 267, 289). We may therefore take the relative weights of ,vater and pressed barley in a log to be 7,200 : 5,104·16. 100 70-89. 141·7: 100. As already shown, there were 80 minre of 8,187'5 Imperial grains each to ~ cubit cubed of ritin water; and this same weight ()£ ; cubit cubed has. been considered by the various antho~ities ·to represent the weight of the talent.