Plethron

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The plethron was an ancient Greek measure of length and also a measure of the field measure of the same name.

length

  • 1 plethron = 100 feet = 30.83 meters
  • 1 plethron = 10,000 philet. Feet = 14,400 Roman feet
  • 5 aurura = 1 plethron

surface

As a square plethron it would have been more correct to describe it as a square plethron.

  • 1 plethron = 4 azure = 10,000 Olympic square feet = 10,256 engl. Square feet = 950 square meters
  • 1 plethron = 100 square pertica = 14,400 square feet (Roman)
  • 1 plethron = 60 Babylonian cubits

The larger measure was the defsätine , which corresponded to 11,466 plethren. The plethron was replaced by the modern Greek stremma .

  • 1 Stremma = 10,000 engl. Square feet = ½ loof

The Defsätine now had 11.76 strikes.

See also

literature

  • Blum, von der Borg, Bunge, Friedländer, Goebel, Kruse, Neue, Struve, Walter: Dorpater yearbooks for literature, statistics and art, especially Russia. Volume 5, Carl Franz Köhler, Leipzig 1836, p. 197.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg unit lexicon: terms, formulas and constants from natural sciences, technology and medicine. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-32283-211-5 , p. 322.
  2. ^ Emil Huebner: Hermes. Journal of Classical Philology. Volume 3, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1869, p. 431.
  3. ^ Emil Huebner: Hermes. Journal of Classical Philology. Volume 3, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1869, p. 432.
  4. ^ Johannes Brandis: The coin, measure and weight system in the Middle East up to Alexander the Great. Wilhelm Hertz , Berlin 1866, p. 22.