Talk:mercor

Latest comment: 1 year ago by 97.81.101.229 in topic Market derived from Egyptian 'merkhet'

Market derived from Egyptian 'merkhet'

edit

We know the Egyptians had cultural and economic contact with the various Mediterranean nations. As they were a dominant economic force, their systems of measuremets must have been known around the Mediterranean. The merkhet served two purposes, as a weight used in transactions and as the 'plummet' used to calibrate the scale. Biblical Hebrew preserves cognates referring to both a measurement weight and a plummet. The Eastern Semitic synonym of these terms was annaku, which derived from the Sumerian signs it referred to, AN-NA.This referred to both tin and lead, which are metals often used for plummets (plummet is from plumbum, 'lead').

97.81.101.229 16:36, 28 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

Return to "mercor" page.