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Cubit rod

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A named graduated forearm-measure of Egyptian and Near Eastern practice. Not a nilometer, not a steelyard, and not a generic ruler.

Also known as Cubit rule · Egyptian cubit rod

Egyptian religion

  • Cubit rod appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus uses the Egyptian cubit among the measures of his Egyptian logos. A named forearm-measure of that inquiry, not a nilometer alone and not a Greek ell-rod.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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