Meaning of khoinix | Babel Free

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““And I heard as a voice in the middle of the four animals saying, A khoinix of wheat for a denarius, and three khoinices of barley for a denarius; and the oil and the wine thou shalt not hurt.””

“This would bring the weaver’s pay at the Bucheum to just over 1½ drachmæ a day—a figure which corresponds so closely with that quoted by Westermann that it goes a long way towards justifying the assumption of an artaba of 24 khoinikes.”

“One would be inclined to think that the okteus would comprise 15 khoinikes and that the primary sub-unit could be divided into 8 parts before reaching the khoinix. Following this reasoning, the Minoan primary sub-unit must have comprised 10 or 12 khoinikes.”

“The consequent total of rations required is 948 khoinikes, which corresponds exactly with the amount of the first two commodities listed in the accompanying record on the same tablet.”

“(2) that wheat, barley, millet and figs were measured by a system of dry capacity. The unit usually recorded was the medimnos, and this was divided for purposes of issue into 120 portions or khoinikes, the khoinix corresponding to a standard day's ration for one person, […]”

“[…] accepting the Mycenaean month at thirty days, the ration is ¹⁄₂₀ × ¹⁄₃₀ × 400 = ⅔ khoinikes per man per diem. The same ration follows for the men of KN Am 819, the ‘boys’ receiving of ⅘ of that amount. Again, the women at Pylos received ⅔ of a khoinix, half in wheat and half in figs, as on HT 94, and the children half of that ration.”

“[…] finally arrived at the paper in which I, for the first time, concluded that the Minoans used a medimnos of 120 khoinikes for the measure of wheat and he alleged that such conclusion was unwarranted as based upon a wrong reading of the text of the Mallia bar H20.”

“The same seems to have been the case for Mycenaean Greece whereby a worker was paid 2 khoinikes barley or 1 khoinix of wheat (in Classical times, a khoinix (choenix) of wheat represents 0.9 litres).”

“In demotic texts thus far published the numbers of khoinices in an artaba are 28, 29 and 30. This text provides the demotic evidence for artabas of 32, 36, 38 and 40 khoinices.”

“The ϭⲁⲡⲓⲭⲉ is known to be identical with the Greek καπιθη a measure of one or two Attic khoinices. The publication of the paper I delivered at the Fifth International Congress of Demotists at Pisa in Actes du Congrès (proposed date 1994) with further examples of the kepedj in a mathematical context will prove it to be the demotic equivalent of the Greek khoinix.”

“The amounts are significant: 8 choes of wine equals 6 gallons; a medimnos equals 48 khoinikes. A single khoinix was a day’s grain ration for a man in Athens.”

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