Subban (unit)

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Subban was a measure of length in Mesopotamia and was calculated as half a measure of rope or 60 cubits . It is thus reminiscent of the Greek plethron .

1 subban = 29.7 meters

literature

Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg unit dictionary. Friedrich Vieweg and Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-528-06987-2 , p. 366.