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Egyptian gold deben (Old/Middle Kingdom range)

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Variant of deben

Record: M520
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Definition

Surviving evidence places one Egyptian gold deben (Old/Middle Kingdom range) between 0.012 and 0.014 kilograms. It is recorded as a range because the documented values were not uniform.

Reference value

Surviving evidence places one Egyptian gold deben (Old/Middle Kingdom range) between 0.012 and 0.014 kilograms. It is recorded as a range because the documented values were not uniform.

Modern use

Retained primarily for historical, educational, or reference use rather than as a current standardized calculator unit.

Did you know?

The word deben hides a major historical trap: surviving Middle Kingdom weights show that earlier standards were not simply the later New Kingdom ~91 g deben. The name persisted while the standard changed.

Sources & evidence

Source tier Tier A — government / museum / authoritative institutional source · confidence Moderate

Trivia — https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/556993

Dalton/u is 1/12 of the mass of a free carbon-12 atom in its ground state. CODATA 2022: 1.66053906892(52)×10^-27 kg.

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Egyptian gold deben (Old/Middle Kingdom range)

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