Pipe (Mesopotamia)

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Pipe is the original Sumerian name for a measure of length that was first used around 2400 BC. Is occupied. A "pipe" corresponds to a length of 6 cubits (about 3 meters). Ten “pipes” result in the higher unit UŠ .

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literature

Dietz-Otto Edzard and a .: Reallexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology, Vol. 2 - Ber to Ezur and supplements - , de Gruyter, Berlin 1978 (reprint edition 1938), ISBN 3-11-004450-1 , pp. 250 and 466

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.