NwandaWomblin
Standard Measures
Archaeological Museum of Piraeus -
"Stone engraved with standard measurements, giving metrical units in half an orgyia (span), which is the span of open arms, the pechys (cubit -0.487m), the spithames (open palm - 0.242m) and two standards of the foot (0.0302m and 0.322m). The second of these, in form of a rule, was used as a basis for the calculation of the cubit, the palm and the span. Found built into a chapel on Salamis (4th century BC)"
Standard Measures
Archaeological Museum of Piraeus -
"Stone engraved with standard measurements, giving metrical units in half an orgyia (span), which is the span of open arms, the pechys (cubit -0.487m), the spithames (open palm - 0.242m) and two standards of the foot (0.0302m and 0.322m). The second of these, in form of a rule, was used as a basis for the calculation of the cubit, the palm and the span. Found built into a chapel on Salamis (4th century BC)"