This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... of value. Indeed it is said to have represented a talent. Thus the pecunia of the Romans was taken from pecus. The Egyptians had also a measure, or weight, apparently of the same name, mn or mna, used for gold and silver, and followed by a similar square sign; which Mr. Birch supposes to have been divided like our ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ... of value. Indeed it is said to have represented a talent. Thus the pecunia of the Romans was taken from pecus. The Egyptians had also a measure, or weight, apparently of the same name, mn or mna, used for gold and silver, and followed by a similar square sign; which Mr. Birch supposes to have been divided like our pound into 16 parts or ounces, no higher number having been found than 15. These have also a square sign after them, determinative of weight, and are called kit or kiti, the Coptic name of the drachma and didrachma.., The idea of the mina being equivalent to our pound seems to be confirmed by the weights, in the form of Hons and ducks, brought by Mr. Layard from Nimroud, (now in the British Museum); as the most perfect of the large ducks, which was i a talent, or 30 minee, weighs little more than 484 ounces, or 40 lbs. troy and 4 ozs. Each mina is therefore 16f ounces; and the close approximation in the weight of thelions and ducks shows they represented the same quantity. Of the Egyptian measures of capacity one was small, answering to the modern mid, or nearly 2 pecks English; another larger, also used for measuring grain, distinguished by the king's crook that surmounts it, which, as M. de Rouge suggests, may point to its value fixed by royal authority; or be a royal, i, e. a large measure. It may perhaps be the origin of the modern Egyptian ardeb (the ertob of the Copts, and the Medish artaba), equal nearly to 5 English bushels; and the smaller one is shown to be the one employed for measuring grain when taken to, or from, the See Layard's Nineveh and Babylon, p. 601. In the woodcut he gives, p. 602, the supposed ring on the back of the crouched lion is only the same conical weight seen in the scales. granary; being the standard like th...
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1854, New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1854.
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1854
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Good. No Jacket. First edition thus (revised and abridged from his larger work). 8vo. Index in volume II. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt on the spine and blind on the covers; several chips; corners rubbed; rubbing). good. 2 volumes. Volume I-Frontispiece view, 7 vignettes and 355 woodcuts-419 pages. Volume II-Large fold-out frontispiece, 9 vignettes and 141 wood cuts-436 pages.
