Beru (Mesopotamia)

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Beru ( Sumerian BERU; later also double lesson ) is the original Sumerian term for a measure of length , which was first used around 2400 BC. Is occupied. A "BERU" corresponds to a length of 6 SAR (approx. 10.5 km).

See also

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Ginzel : Handbook of mathematical and technical chronology . Volume 1: Calendar of the Babylonians, Egyptians, Mohammedans, Persians, Indians, Southeast Asians, Chinese, Japanese and Central Americans . German book export and import, Leipzig 1958, (reprint Leipzig 1906).
  • Otto Neugebauer : A history of ancient mathematical astronomy . 3 parts. Springer, Berlin et al. 1975, ISBN 3-540-06995-X , ( Studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences 1).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. François Thureau-Dangin: Textes de l'époque d'Agadé <Fouilles d'Ernest de Sarzec en 1895> - Inventaire des tablettes de Tello (part 1) - , Leroux, Paris 1910, 11, 1175; Otto Neugebauer: Astronomy and history - Selected essays - , Springer, New York 1983, p. 8.