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I.: WEIGHTS - Rev. Claude Hermann Walter Johns, Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters [1904]

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Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904).

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WEIGHTS

1 shekel=180 šê.
1 mina=60 shekels.
1 talent=60 minas.

The weight of the mina may be reckoned in round numbers as 500 grams.