Part 40 (1/2)

II. Measures Of Capacity

_Early Scale_

1 GIN = 180 _e_ (?).

1 ?A = 60 GIN.

1 GUR = 300 ?A.

_Later Scale_

1 GUR = 180 ?A.

III. Measures Of Length

1 ell (U) = 60 _ubanu_.

1 _?anu_ = 6 ells.

1 GAR = 2 _?anu_.

1 KASBU = 1,800 GAR.

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

IV. Measures Of Surface

1 GIN = 180 _e._ 1 SAR = 60 GIN.

1 GAN = 1,800 SAR.

The area of the SAR was one GAR square, or 6 metres square. Areas were also measured by the amount of corn required to sow them, or their average yield, that is by the GUR and ?A.

V. Measures Of Time

1 day = 12 double hours.

1 month = 30 days, average.

1 year = 12 months, average.

Further details may be obtained from Zimmern's _Das Princip unserer Zeit-und Raumteilung_, in the _Berichten d. philolog. histor. Cla.s.se d.

Konigl. Sachs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig_. November 14, 1901.

IV. Bibliography Of The Later Periods

THE NEW BABYLONIAN EMPIRE

*Nabopola.s.sar.*-Stra.s.smaier published nineteen texts in _Z. A._, iv., pp.

141-45, of which three are transcribed and translated in _K. B._, iv., pp.

177-81. Dr. Pinches gave another, _C. T._, iv., p. 14, and another in Peek-Pinches, p. 3. Dr. Moldenke gave nine other texts in his _Cuneiform Texts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York_.

*Nebuchadrezzar II.*-Stra.s.smaier published 460 texts in _Hefts V.-VI._, of the _Babylonische Texte_, of which thirty-one are transcribed and translated in _K. B._, iv., pp. 180-201, and forty are discussed in Kohler-Peiser's _Aus Babylonischen Rechtsleben_. Two texts are published by Pinches, _C. T._, iv., p. 38, two more in Peiser's _Babylonische Vertrage_, six texts from the Liverpool Museum were published by Stra.s.smaier in the _Actes du VI. Congres Internationale des Orientalistes, 1883_. Some of the above texts belong, however, to the reign of Nebuchadrezzar III.

*Evil-Merodach.*-Evetts published twenty-four texts in _Babylonische Texte, Heft VI., B_, of which _K. B._, iv., pp. 200-3, gives transcriptions and translations of two. Kohler-Peiser discuss eight in _Aus Babylonischen Rechtsleben_ and add one more. Stra.s.smaier published two from the Liverpool Museum in the _Actes du VI. Congres Internationale des Orientalistes, 1883_.