Cubit (English Wikipedia)

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Richard Lepsius (1865). Die altaegyptische Elle und ihre Eintheilung (in German). Berlin: Dümmler. p. 14–18.
Marshall Clagett (1999). Ancient Egyptian science, a Source Book. Volume Three: Ancient Egyptian Mathematics. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. ISBN 978-0-87169-232-0. p.
Mishnah (Kelim 17:9–10, pp. 629, note 14 – 630). In the Tosefta (Kelim Baba-Metsia 6:12–13), however, it brings down a second opinion, namely, that of Rabbi Meir, who distinguishes between a medium-sized cubit of 5 handbreadths, used principally for rabbinic measurements in measuring the bare and untilled ground near a vineyard and where there is a prohibition to grow therein seed plants under the laws of Diverse Kinds, and a larger cubit of 6 handbreadths used to measure therewith the altar. Cf. Saul Lieberman, Tosefet Rishonim (part 3), Jerusalem 1939, p. 54, s.v. איזו היא אמה בינונית, where he brings down a variant reading of the same Tosefta and where it has 6 handbreadths, instead of 5 handbreadths, for the medium size cubit.
Cf. Warren, C. (1903). The Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures. London: The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. p. 4. OCLC 752584387.
Grant, James (1814). Thoughts on the Origin and Descent of the Gael: With an Account of the Picts, Caledonians, and Scots; and Observations Relative to the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian. Edinburgh: For A. Constable and Company. p. 137. Retrieved 1 January 2018. Solinus, cap. 45, uses ulna for cubitus, where Pliny speaks of a crocodile of 22 cubits long. Solinus expresses it by so many ulnae, and Julius Pollux uses both words for the same... they call a cubitus an ulna.

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Arnold Dieter (1991). Building in Egypt: pharaonic stone masonry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-506350-9. p. 251.
Acta praehistorica et archaeologica Volumes 7–8. Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte; Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (Berlin, Germany); Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Berlin: Bruno Hessling Verlag, 1976. p. 49.
H. Arthur Klein (1974). The Science of Measurement: A Historical Survey. New York: Dover. ISBN 9780486258393. p. 68.
Allcock, Hubert (2003). Heraldic design : its origins, ancient forms, and modern usage, with over 500 illustrations. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. p. 24. ISBN 048642975X.

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Hinz, W. (1965). "Dhirāʿ". In Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume II: C–G. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 231–232. OCLC 495469475.

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Guralnick, Eleanor (1996). "Sargonid Sculpture and the Late Assyrian Cubit". Iraq. 58: 89–103. doi:10.2307/4200421. ISSN 0021-0889. JSTOR 4200421.
Stone, Mark H. (30 January 2014). Kaushik Bose (ed.). "The Cubit: A History and Measurement Commentary (Review Article)". Journal of Anthropology. 2014: 489757 [4]. doi:10.1155/2014/489757.

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Guralnick, Eleanor (1996). "Sargonid Sculpture and the Late Assyrian Cubit". Iraq. 58: 89–103. doi:10.2307/4200421. ISSN 0021-0889. JSTOR 4200421.

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"Definition of CUBIT". 2 February 2024.

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Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989; online version September 2011. s.v. "cubit"

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Hart, Sarah. "The Green Man". Shropshire Hedgelaying. Oliver Liebscher. Archived from the original on 17 January 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2017. On the roadside the finish is clean and neat, a living fence of intertwined branches between stakes placed an old cubit (the length of a man's forearm or approximately 18 inches) apart.

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Hart, Sarah. "The Green Man". Shropshire Hedgelaying. Oliver Liebscher. Archived from the original on 17 January 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2017. On the roadside the finish is clean and neat, a living fence of intertwined branches between stakes placed an old cubit (the length of a man's forearm or approximately 18 inches) apart.

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Guralnick, Eleanor (1996). "Sargonid Sculpture and the Late Assyrian Cubit". Iraq. 58: 89–103. doi:10.2307/4200421. ISSN 0021-0889. JSTOR 4200421.
Cf. Warren, C. (1903). The Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures. London: The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. p. 4. OCLC 752584387.
Ozdural, Alpay (1998). Necipoğlu, Gülru (ed.). "Sinan's Arsin: A Survey of Ottoman Architectural Metrology". Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World. 15. Leiden, The Netherlands: 109. ISSN 0732-2992. ... Roman ulna of four feet...
Hinz, W. (1965). "Dhirāʿ". In Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. & Schacht, J. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume II: C–G. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 231–232. OCLC 495469475.

Cubit (English Wikipedia)

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