Historical Units

Talent

Tanım

Antik dünyada kullanılan ağırlık ve para birimi; İbrani kullanımında yaklaşık 26 kg, Attika (Atina) standardında ise yaklaşık 60 kg'a karşılık gelir.

Açıklama

Divided into 60 minas or 3,600 shekels in Mesopotamian systems, the talent was used to weigh metals — particularly gold, silver, and copper. In the New Testament parable of the talents, one talent of silver represented roughly 20 years of wages for a laborer. The English word 'talent' (meaning skill or gift) derives directly from this unit via the parable.

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