Chet (Ancient Egypt)
| Chet in hieroglyphics | |||||||
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chet ḫt wine jug |
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chet ḫt wood |
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chet-en-nuh ḫt-n-nwḥ Schennoch-wood |
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Chet (also Schennoch ) was the ancient Egyptian name for units of measurement. On the one hand, the chet functioned as a volume measure for the amount of a filled wine jug, on the other hand as a measure of length, in ancient Egyptian also "chet-en-nuh", for 100 Egyptian " Holzellen " (ancient Egyptian also "meh" for royal cell ), which amounted to about 52.4 m .
The length measure Chet was used as a measuring line for larger sections of the route, for example when building pyramids or when building royal palaces or mortuary temples. The ancient Egyptian formulation of measuring was mostly: "Tension the cord for ..."
Chet was the royal Egyptian rod.
- 1 chet ≈ 52 meters
- 1 chet / rod (royal) = 100 cubits
- 1 royal cubit = 7 hand widths = 28 fingers ≈ 52.5 centimeters
See also
literature
- Rainer Hannig : Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian-German: (2800–950 BC). von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 671.
- Author collective: Göttinger Miszellen . Issues 150–155, 1996, p. 55.
- Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-323-00013-7 , p. 52.