Calvin y Hobbes

A great quantity of the Egyptian documents which reached us, are of a countable nature. Nothing astonishing for this bureaucratic civilization or the scribes had like stains principal to enter harvests (to calculate the taxes) and to remake the land surveying and the demarcation of the arable lands (that the rising of the Nile erased each year).

Measures of length

Digital system

  • the finger (1,86 to 1,88 cm),

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  • the palm (4 fingers, is 7,47 to 7,52 cm),
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  • the hand (5 fingers, either 9,35 cm),
  • the double palm (8 fingers, or 14,96 cm),
  • small the empan (12 fingers, or 22,44 cm),
  • large the empan (14 fingers, or 26,18 cm),
  • bent crowned (16 fingers, or 29,92 cm),
  • bent-remen (20 fingers, or 37,40 cm),
  • the small one bent (24 fingers, or 44,88 cm),
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  • large bent or the bent royal one (7 palms or 28 fingers, is 52,36 to 52,64 cm),
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  • the sandal (1/5 of bent royal, is 10,47 cm).

Uncial system

  • the fist (10 cm),

  • bent crowned (3 fists, either 30 cm),
  • the inch (1/12e of bent, or 2,5 cm),
  • the canes (7 fists, or 70 cm),
  • the pitch-stirrer (18 fists, or 1,80 m).

  • the stage (approximately 157.5 m) of origin Greek, introduced under the Ptolémées .

Measurements of surface

The Aroure (known as aroure setat) represents a square of one hundred bent royal on side, that is to say approximately 2735,29 m ².

The aroure setat is subdivided in:

Cubic measures

  • the héka or heqat (~4,8 liters),

  • the khar (20 hékas, either ~96 liters),
  • the henou (1/10e of héka, or ~0,48 liters).

Measurements of weight

  • the Deben (literally: ring of metal ) being worth 13,6 G with the Ancient Empire and approximately 91 G starting from the Average Empire.

The weights lower than the qity are expressed by the fractions. Example: T3: S12-F48: N35: S106-I8-M12-V1: V1-V20: Z1*Z1*Z1*Z1-Aa28-X1-Z3*Z3*Z3-D22-D21: Z1*Z1*Z1*Z1 101214 DBN, 9 qd.t, R (ȝ) - 2, r (ȝ) - 4, ḥḏ ; 101  214 dében, 9 qity ½ ¼ (= ¾) of money

  • the Sénious or shâts (1/12e of deben, is ~7,6g),
  • the Artabe (is still used, under the name ardeb ).

Appendices

Related articles

External bonds

  • measures to ancient Egypt,

  • At the origins of the mathematical concept of measurement in Africa,
  • Weight and measurement.

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