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III.: MEASURES OF LENGTH - 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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MEASURES OF LENGTH

1 ell (U)=60 ubanu.
1 ânu=6 ells.
1 GAR=2 ânu.
1 KASBU=1,800 GAR.

On other measures see , ii., pp. 197-218. The ell is about half a metre.