Meaning of sossos | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A quantity of 60, such as a period of 60 years.
2. One tenth of a neros and one sixtieth of a saros – about 110 days.
   archaic, rare

Examples

“February 1984, Jöran Friberg, "Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records." Scientific American, volume 250, number⟳ 2, page 110. There in about 340 B.C. the founder of a school of astrology, a Babylonian named Berossos, wrote a history of his homeland. In it he told his Greek readers that the numbers sossos (60), neros (600) and saros (3,600) occupied a special place⟳ in Babylonian arithmetic and astronomy.”

“Berossos used in his accounts saroi, neroi, and sossoi. A saros is a unit of time that consists of 3,600 years, a neros of 600 years, and a sossos of 60 years”

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