Talent (measurement)
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The talent was a unit of weight used in the ancient world, often used for weighing gold and silver.
Sumerian tablet with measurement glyphs
Mina (unit)
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The mina is an ancient Near Eastern unit of weight for silver or gold, equivalent to approximately 1.25 pounds, which was divided into 60 shekels. The mina, like the shekel, eventually also became a u
Talent (measurement)
…the end of the 4th millennium BC. It was normalized at the end of the 3rd millennium during the Akkadian-Sumer phase. The talent was divided into 60 minas, each subdivided into 60 shekels (following the common Mesopotamian sexagesimal number system). These weights were used subsequently by the Babylonians…
Measurement of ½ mina (actual weight 248 grams), a weight standard established by the Sumerian king Shulgi. It has a crescent image; used in the temple of the god Sin in Ur, diorite, 6.2 by 4.5 centimetres (2.4 in × 1.8 in), early 21st century B.C. (III dynasty of Ur).
Belshazzar's Feast, (Rembrandt, c. 1635–1638). The message mene, mene, tekel, upharsin is written in vertical lines starting at the top right corner.