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Also known as 𒈠𒈾

ancient Near Eastern unit of weight

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Instance of
unit of mass
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talent
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measured physical quantity
mass
conversion to standard unit
600
conversion to SI unit
0.4578
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wd:Q850029 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)
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Encyclopedic overview

Measurement of ½ mina (actual weight 248 grams), a weight standard established by the Sumerian king Shulgi. It has a crescent image; used in the temple of the god Sin in Ur, diorite, 6.2 by 4.5 centimetres (2.4 in × 1.8 in), early 21st century B.C. (III dynasty of Ur).

The mina /ˈmaɪnə/ (Akkadian: 𒈠𒈾, romanized: manû; Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎐, romanized: mn; Imperial Aramaic: מְנֵא, romanized: mənēʾ; Hebrew: מָנֶה, romanized: māneh; Classical Syriac: ܡܢܝܐ, romanized: manyāʾ; Ancient Greek: μνᾶ, romanized: mnā; Latin: mina) is an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight for silver or gold, equivalent to approximately 1.25 pounds (0.57 kg), which was divided into 60 shekels. The mina, like the shekel, eventually also became a unit of currency.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.