mass · Ancient Egypt · Ancient
One Egyptian deben (New Kingdom standard) is understood to be about 0.091 kilograms.
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mass · Ancient Egypt · Antiquity
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Never attach one universal gram value to generic deben; surface period/material variants.
Definition
UCL records Old/Middle Kingdom gold deben about 12–14 g and copper deben about 27 g; New Kingdom system used a deben about 91 g divided into 10 qedet/kite.
Reference value
12–14 g; 27 g; later ≈91 g
History & use
The same name changed materially across periods and commodity standards.
Modern use
Retained primarily for historical, educational, or reference use rather than as a current standardized calculator unit.
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The deben could function in both concrete weighing and later value calculations, but Egyptian sources distinguished weight from abstract value.
Documented variants
mass · Ancient Egypt · Ancient
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.
rangemass · Ancient Egypt · Ancient
One Egyptian copper deben (Old/Middle Kingdom reference) is understood to be about 0.027 kilograms.
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