Amahe

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The amahe was an ancient Egyptian measure of length and corresponded to the cubit . Everyday Amahe , in Coptic Mahe and in Hebrew Ammah , the measure can be proven on Egyptian monuments. Some of the so-called etalons were found near Memphis around 1822 and were taken to Paris , Leiden and Turin .

The length measurements were as follows:

  • 1 amahe (cubit) = 2 pat ( feet ) = 6 dead ( hand width ) = 24 teb ( finger width )
    • 1 Pat = 3 Tot = 12 Teb
  • 1 royal cubit (suten-koi or suten-amahe) = 28 inches (about 1 Egyptian cubit = 0.526 meters = 22 ½ inches (Leipziger))
  • 1 common or small cubit (amahe-kuzi) = 24 inches
    • 1 divine foot (pal-nuli) = 14 inches
    • 1 common or small foot (pal-kuzi) = 12 inches
    • 1 palm or hand width (toi) = 4 inches
    • 1 finger width (leb) = 1 inch

literature

  • Karl Oppel: The old wonderland of the pyramids. Otto Spamer, Leipzig 1863, p. 36.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maximilian Adolf Uhlemann: Handbook of the entire Egyptian antiquity. Volume 1, Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1857, p. 84.