Schoenus

For other uses, see Schoenus (disambiguation).
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Schoenus (Latin: schœnus; Ancient Greek: σχοίνος, schoinos, lit. "rush rope"; Ancient Egyptian: i͗trw, lit. "river-measure") was an ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman unit of length and area based on the knotted cords first used in Egyptian surveying.

Length

The Greeks, who adopted it from the Egyptians, generally considered the schoinos equal to 40 stades, but neither the schoinos nor the stadion had an absolute value, and there were several regional variants of each. Strabo noted that it also varied with terrain, and that when he "ascended the hills, the measures of these schoeni were not everywhere uniform, so that the same number sometimes designated a greater, sometimes a less actual extent of road, a variation which dates from the earliest time and exists in our days." Herodotus (2.6 and 2.149) says, that schoenus is 60 stadia or about 10.5 kilometres (6.5 mi).[1] This agrees with the distance implied by the Triacontaschoenus stretching south of the First Cataract in Roman-era Nubia.[2] Pliny the Elder 5.11 that is 30 stadia. Strabo 17.1.24: according to the place, between 30 and 120 stadia. Isidore of Charax's schoenus—used in his Parthian Stations—has been given values between 4.7 and 5.5 kilometers, but the precise value remains controversial given the known errors in some of his distances.[3][4]

The Byzantine schoinion or "little schoenus" (σχοινιον, skhoinion) was 20 000 Greek feet or 33⅓ stades.[5]

Area

The Romans also used the schoenus as a unit of area, equivalent to the actus quadratus or half-jugerum (2,523 m2 (27,160 sq ft)) formed by a square with sides of 120 Roman feet. The Heraclean Tables admonished that each schoenus should be planted with 4 olive trees and some grape vines, upon penalty of fines.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ The Histories. OUP Oxford. March 5, 1998. ISBN 978-0-19-158955-3 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Fage, J. D.; Clark, John Desmond; Oliver, Roland Anthony (1975). The Cambridge History of Africa. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-21592-3.
  3. ^ Edwell, Peter (December 2007). Between Rome and Persia: The Middle Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Palmyra Under Roman Control. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-09573-5.
  4. ^ Bell, Gertrude; Mason, Fergus (2 June 2014). Amurath to Amurath: Includes Biography of Gertrude Bell. BookCaps Study Guides. ISBN 978-1-62917-285-9.
  5. ^ Byzantine Measures.
  6. ^ Ridgeway, William (1892). The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards. CUP Archive.


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