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| susa_metrological_systems [2014/12/31 14:54] – [Systems used to count discrete objects] dahl | susa_metrological_systems [2024/06/28 19:31] (current) – [Table] kelley | ||
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| ===== Proto-Elamite metrological systems ===== | ===== Proto-Elamite metrological systems ===== | ||
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| + | Return to [[4th & 3rd millennium]] | ||
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| ==== Systems used to count discrete objects ==== | ==== Systems used to count discrete objects ==== | ||
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| | **↓ ×6** || | | **↓ ×6** || | ||
| | N< | | N< | ||
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| + | Only two texts have conclusive evidence for the large sexagesimal notations: ([[http:// | ||
| == Decimal System D == | == Decimal System D == | ||
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| Used to count discrete animate objects, in particular domesticated animals and laborers.\\ | Used to count discrete animate objects, in particular domesticated animals and laborers.\\ | ||
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×10** | + | | **↓ ×10** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×6** || | + | | **↓ ×10** || |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×10** | + | | **↓ ×10** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×6** || | + | | **↓ ×6** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
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| Used to count discrete grain products; objects noted with this system may, as in archaic Babylonia, belong to a rationing system.\\ | Used to count discrete grain products; objects noted with this system may, as in archaic Babylonia, belong to a rationing system.\\ | ||
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×10** | + | | **↓ ×10** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×6** || | + | | **↓ ×6** || |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×2** || | + | | **↓ ×2** || |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×10** | + | | **↓ ×10** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
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| == Bi-sexagesimal System B# == | == Bi-sexagesimal System B# == | ||
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| | **↓ ×10** | | **↓ ×10** | ||
| | N< | | N< | ||
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| ==== Systems used to count measures of capacity ==== | ==== Systems used to count measures of capacity ==== | ||
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| System used primarily to note capacity measures of grain, in particular barley; some of the small units also designate bi-secually counted cereal products.\\ | System used primarily to note capacity measures of grain, in particular barley; some of the small units also designate bi-secually counted cereal products.\\ | ||
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×2** || | + | | **↓ ×2** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×2** || | + | | **↓ ×2** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×3** || | + | | **↓ ×3** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×2** || | + | | **↓ ×2** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×5** || | + | | **↓ ×5** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×6** || | + | | **↓ ×6** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×10** | + | | **↓ ×10** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×3** || | + | | **↓ ×3** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| - | | **↓ ×10** | + | | **↓ ×10** |
| - | | N< | + | | N< |
| + | | | **↓ ×6** | | ||
| + | | N< | ||
| == Capacity System C# == | == Capacity System C# == | ||
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| | N< | | N< | ||
| | **↓ ×10** | | **↓ ×10** | ||
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| + | == Capacity System C'' | ||
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| + | System derived from the capacity system C, graphically related to the Babylonian system used to measure emmer.\\ | ||
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| + | | **↓ ×2** || | ||
| + | | N< | ||
| + | | **↓ ×3** || | ||
| + | | N< | ||
| + | | **↓ ×2** || | ||
| + | | N< | ||
| + | | **↓ ×5** || | ||
| + | | N< | ||
| + | | **↓ ×6** || | ||
| + | | N< | ||
| + | | **↓ ×10** | ||
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| + | KEK | ||
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| + | (return to [[numbers metrology]]) | ||
| + | (return to [[4th & 3rd millennium]]) | ||
