Talk:mercor

Market derived from Egyptian 'merkhet'

We know the Egyptians had cultural and economic contact with the various Mediterranean nations. As they were a dominant economic force, their systems of measuremets must have been known around the Mediterranean. The merkhet served two purposes, as a weight used in transactions and as the 'plummet' used to calibrate the scale. Biblical Hebrew preserves cognates referring to both a measurement weight and a plummet. The Eastern Semitic synonym of these terms was annaku, which derived from the Sumerian signs it referred to, AN-NA.This referred to both tin and lead, which are metals often used for plummets (plummet is from plumbum, 'lead').

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