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The Persian system of weights and measures has had an important influence on other systems among others on that of old Greece.
[edit] Length
|
Finger |
¼ palm |
|
Hand palm |
¼ foot |
| zereth |
foot |
½ cubit |
| arsani |
ulna |
52-64 cm |
|
Stock |
2 paces, 6 ulnas |
|
| chebel |
|
40 arsani |
| stadion |
|
ca 264 m, predecessor of the Greek and Egyptian Stadions |
| parasang |
Farsang |
250 chebel |
6 km |
|
= 6,23 km in the middle of 19th century |
|
= 10 km, in today's Iran and Turkey. |
| schoinos |
|
root of the Greek and Egyptian units |
| mansion, stathmos |
|
4 parsang |
[edit] Volumes
| chenica |
|
= 1,32 l, the basic for the Greek cheonix |
